Fungal Diversity Survey

The only non-profit focusing on North American fungal conservation

Our VISION: a world in which the fungal kingdom is fully documented, understood, appreciated, and protected.

Our MISSION: FUNDIS protects biodiversity through the conservation of fungi and their habitats by increasing knowledge and public awareness of their diversity and distribution, equipping and engaging community scientists, and partnering with land managers, conservationists, and scientists.

Taye’s involvement with the Fungal Diversity Survey:

Field Mycologist for the CA Fungal Diversity Survey

Thanks to the State of California and the California Institute for Biodiversity, Fungal Diversity Survey is embarking on the first state-wide project of its kind. California Fungal Diversity Survey (CA FunDiS) will engage a diversity of Californians to generate tens of thousands of scientific grade macrofungi DNA sequences, open-source observations, and collections. FunDiS aims to make California an unprecedented model for civic engagement in documenting and protecting fungi for the rest of North America.

Co-coordinator for the West Coast Rare Fungi Challenge

This project is aimed at inspiring community scientists to find a target list of rare, under-documented or potentially threatened fungi. Scientists and conservationists need more data on these fungi in order to better understand and protect them.