The UK and Chile intend to propose fungi as a separate realm for environmental protection, elevating their status alongside animals and plants to enhance conservation efforts.
This initiative, revealed ahead of COP16, argues that fungi must be recognized in policies to maintain their crucial benefits to ecosystems during the environmental crisis.
Mycologists emphasize that fungi are essential for plant survival outside water, highlighting that life on Earth as we know it depends on them.
Giuliana Furci from the Fungi Foundation states that failing to consider fungi when examining ecosystems is akin to misdiagnosing an illness without key tests.
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