
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262
For The Wild
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Taxonomy and Conservation Practices
Few species of fungi have been placed on the international union for conservation of nature red list. This is in comparison to over 25 thousand plants and 68 thousand animals. However, you clar that this isn't because fungi are not susceptible to extinction. Rather, it shord holding fungi to biological determinations of more normative groups, say trees or birds, is to deny their basic biology which puts them at risk for extinction. So with this failure in mind, i wonder if you could speak to what sort of imaginative conservation practices are needed today.
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