AddFUNgi mushroom and bandicoot walk

Join us for a fungi foray and bandicoot walk!

As part of the Parks Victoria Volunteering Innovation Fund, MYCOmmunity is running a public event aimed at building understanding and awareness of the importance of our unsung Australian fungi for healthy ecosystems.

Despite being critical for ecosystem health and functioning, our fungi are poorly understood and often left out of ecological monitoring and citizen science. For example, many local marsupials like bandicoots depend on fungi as a source of food. In turn, such animals help to spread fungal spores which are vital mycorrhizal partners of trees. In order to better monitor and protect our ecosystems, we need to significantly build awareness and understanding of fungi.

The event will take place on Saturday July 1 from 10:30am at the Adams Creek Conservation Reserve in Nyora.

Participants will learn about the roles of fungi in the environment, bandicoots and their relationship to fungi, the endangered Tea Tree Fingers fungus and how to take observations to help conservation efforts using the iNaturalist app.