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The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia this week that fungi should receive a similar status to animals and plants.
This move could significantly increase awareness about the essential role fungi play in ecosystems, correcting misconceptions that cast fungi solely as harmful organisms, while increasing funding for this field of research.Comet Tracker Tonight: Sunday Is Your Last Chance — Don’t Miss It “They have been overlooked in climate solutions, biodiversity assessments, and conservation targets due to a lack of data, and a misunderstanding that fungi were plants, rather than an independent kingdom with unique chemical and physical attributes,” said Dr. Toby Kiers, executive director and chief scientist at the The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks .
Emerging technologies offer new approaches for monitoring living systems: “Novel applications of AI are helping us decode algorithms of hidden fungal processes. To fully monitor fungi, we need to capture high-resolution data across scales, from microscopic fungal interactions to global patterns,” said Kiers, mentioning that global collaboration will be key to creating a comprehensive protection strategy.
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