Welcome to the Fungal Network of New Zealand Incorporated.
The main objects of the Society are:
- To share knowledge about, and to publicise the fungi of New Zealand and their roles in all ecosystems.
- To stimulate research on fungi.
- To educate about fungi at primary to tertiary levels.
- To provide a cohesive group of amateur and professional people who share common interests in fungi.
- To assist in cataloguing New Zealand's fungi and to promote their conservation.
- To organise at minimum an annual national fungal foray.
- To attract funding for mycological research.
- To promote such other activities that may advance the aims of this Society.
FUNNZ News:
Foray 2010 - register now!! (Click here to download information & registration form)
This is a preliminary notice to advise you that the 24th NZ Annual Fungal Foray will be held between 2-8th May 2010 based at Glentui Meadows near Oxford just northwest of Christchurch.
It is directly adjacent DOC walking tracks into beech forest. Many of the other areas on the following list are within reach of Glentui base camp:
http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/canterbury/waimakariri-area/
There are also a few remnant bush sites in the plains, and Cragieburn. More details are to follow.
Please contact Jerry Cooper
for any details.
Foray report and species list of the 23nd Fungal Foray have been uploaded to the foray reports page.
Photos of the 22nd Fungal Foray ( Dunedin, May 08) have been uploaded to the foray page and the archive. If you would like to contribute your photos to the FUNNZ archive, please email to Paula Wilkie
Project funded by the Terrestrial
and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System Programme
Record your fungal observations in the New
Zealand Biodiversity Recording System
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