Welcome to the new Fungimap Coordinator – Tamara Walton. Tamara is based in Tasmania and comes to us with a background in marine science, conservation and government relations having previously worked with CSIRO and Parks Australia. Tamara is an avid f...
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Half a million fungi records and counting – By Tom May
![Half a million fungi records and counting – By Tom May](https://fungimap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Pseudoinonotus-chondromyelus-750x375.jpg)
Sometime around the middle of the day on Saturday 18 May 2024, the number of fungi observations for Australia on iNaturalist ticked over 500,000. I was hoping to see the half millionth record as it came in, but just on this one day, more than 900 observation...
Exciting news: Fungimap awarded large SA citizen science grant!
![Exciting news: Fungimap awarded large SA citizen science grant!](https://fungimap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/369B69A1-A3D8-4593-A772-704D1AE66606_1_201_a-750x375.jpeg)
We are very pleased to announce that we were successful in securing a grant from the South Australia government as part of their Citizen Science Large Grants program! The funding is for a 3 year pilot project called “Fungi for Function: bushland health i...
Grant success!
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We are thrilled to announce that we were successful in securing a $5,000 grant from the Wettenhall Environment Trust! This grant is to progress the groundbreaking work of nominating the critically endangered Tea-tree Fingers (Hypocreopsis amplectens) for Commo...
New resource: how to photograph and describe my fungus
![New resource: how to photograph and describe my fungus](https://fungimap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-08-at-11.37.00-am-750x375.png)
Catherine Marciniak (@planet_fungi) and Susie Webster from Fungimap have kindly put together a free downloadable field guide for photographing and describing fungal specimens (complete with beautiful photos by Steve Axford!) It also includes a step-by-step pro...