Where plants produce and animals consume, fungi are the recyclers. Fungi are just as much threatened as animals and plants by climate change, habitat destruction, invasives, pollution, over-exploitation and even, in some cases, persecution.
Habitats important for threatened fungi may be different from habitats important for threatened animals and plants. Biodiversity can only be conserved if the well-being of fungi is given as much consideration as that of animals and plants: without fungi life on earth would be unsustainable. Fungi provide enormously important ecosystem services (e.g. soil fertility, mycorrhizas, crop protection, litter decomposition, checks and balances).
Egypt was one of the first countries in the world to have a national fungus day. Egypt is a pioneer country in recognizing that fungi are essential for sustainable life on that planet.
For the aforementioned information mycologists in Africa agreed to consider the 25th of May as the African Fungus Day as on 25 May, 1963, the first African organisation after independence, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed in Addis Ababa.
African Mycological Association (AfriMA), Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (ASFC) at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, Egypt and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) under the auspices of the International Mycological Association (IMA) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) announce the ist annual Africa Fungus Day (AFD). The celebration will take place online on the 23rd of May 2024 from 10 am till 6 pm (South Africa local time-GMT+02:00) Eastern European Time) if Allah wills by Google meet platform. click on the button .
The celebration will include different well-known mycologists from Africa and their speeches will cover different topics such as:
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Our honorary speaker for 2023
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