Fungimap Inc is an Australian non-profit, citizen-science organization founded in 1996 dedicated to raising the profile of Australia's fungal diversity.
This valuable resource is used for research, conservation, and policy purposes and has been provided to the Australian National Heritage Assessment Tool (ANHAT), state and Commonwealth environment agencies, and the Atlas of Living Australia.
Anyone can contribute fungi records to Fungimap; submitting a fungal record often follows the below criteria: • Species name • Location: using Lat/Long or GPS and a text description • Date seen • Photographic details: file name of the relevant photo and the permission you would like to grant to Fungimap in relation to the image • Habitat, e.g. garden, rainforest, eucalypt woodland, nearest tree • Substrate (what is it growing on) e.g. tree trunk (species?
There are subcommittees for Data and Images, Conservation and Biodiversity and Funding and Promotion, as well as the organizing committees for the particular Conferences and Festivals that are being planned.
Fungimap has a staff of two part-time Coordinators, a team of office volunteers, and a wide network of people submitting data and images.