3rd African Fungus Day- 2024| - 2024 يوم الفطريات الثالث فى أفريقيا
The Third African Fungus Day Online Date: May 23, 2024
يوم الفطريات الثالث فى أفريقيا- 23 مايو 2024
Mycological Research in Africa: Exploring New Horizons بحوث علم الفطريات في أفريقيا: استكشاف آفاق جديدة
Recherche Mycologique en Afrique: Explorer de Nouveaux Horizons
For Download Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema,Executive Secretary of the CBD
Event Coordinator
Prof. Irene Barnes
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology,
FABI - University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Event Organizer
Dr. Neriman Yilmaz
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology,
FABI - University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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.
This year Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (ASFC) at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, Egypt, dedicated the organization of the day to the African Mycological Association (AfriMA) which will be hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) under the auspices of the International Mycological Association (IMA) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The celebration will take place online on the 23rd of May 2024 from 10 am South Africa local time-GMT+02:00) Eastern European Time) if Allah wills by Zoom. For the agenda and registeration please scan the code or visit the link https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/AfricanFungusDay/.
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Prof. Irene Barnes
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI - University of Pretoria, South Africa.Event Organizer
Dr. Neriman Yilmaz
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology,
FABI - University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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.
This year Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (ASFC) at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, Egypt, dedicated the organization of the day to the African Mycological Association (AfriMA) which will be hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) under the auspices of the International Mycological Association (IMA) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The celebration will take place online on the 23rd of May 2024 from 10 am South Africa local time-GMT+02:00) Eastern European Time) if Allah wills by Zoom. For the agenda and registeration please scan the code or visit the link https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/AfricanFungusDay/.
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Dr. Neriman Yilmaz
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI - University of Pretoria, South Africa.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.
This year Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (ASFC) at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, Egypt, dedicated the organization of the day to the African Mycological Association (AfriMA) which will be hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) under the auspices of the International Mycological Association (IMA) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The celebration will take place online on the 23rd of May 2024 from 10 am South Africa local time-GMT+02:00) Eastern European Time) if Allah wills by Zoom. For the agenda and registeration please scan the code or visit the link https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/AfricanFungusDay/.
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