| Capacity-building | Efforts of the Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball Specialist Group in 2014 focused on implementing the Global Fungal Red List Initiative through workshops, short courses, and seminars. After training, the 13 participants completed 24 preliminary assessments. Workshops and seminars were held at a number of national, regional, and international conferences including the International Mycological... |
| Field activities | The first private reserve of myxomycetes was created in the Alps (Engins, France) for stationary observation in nature. |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | In collaboration with other IUCN SSC fungal Specialist Groups, and with the International Society for Fungal Conservation, the Cup Fungi, Truffles and Allies Specialist Group wrote to every CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) National Focus Point (the contact person responsible for Rio Convention policy in each participating country), drawing attention... |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | The Cup Fungi, Truffles and Allies Specialist Group lobbied the British Government about the importance of retaining mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
| Scientific/technical activities | Five myxomycete species (Barbeyella minutissima, Diacheopsis kowalskii, D. metallica, Dianema inconspicuum, Lamproderma disseminatum) were assessed for Red Listing at the European and global level (http://iucn.ekoo.se) |
| Scientific/technical activities | In the framework of the project Global Fungal Red List Initiative, members of the Rusts and Smuts Specialist Group took part in the initial global Red Listing workshop which was held in Flen, Sweden (13–16 April 2014). Twenty one species of smut and rust fungi with occurrences in countries from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North and South America have been nominated for assessments. |
| Scientific/technical activities | The Chytrid, Zygomycete, Downy Mildew and Slime Mould Specialist Group created a preliminary conservation action plan for myxomycetes protection as a model for the first conservation evaluation of chytrids, zygomycetes and downy mildews. |
| Scientific/technical activities | The Chytrid, Zygomycete, Downy Mildew and Slime Mould Specialist Group organized a workshop at the 8th International Congress on Systematics and Ecology of Myxomycetes (China, August 2014), where IUCN Red List criteria were analysed for slime mould and other “lower fungi”. |
| Scientific/technical activities | The Chytrid, Zygomycete, Downy Mildew and Slime Mould Specialist Group organized a workshop during the 26th International Days for the Search and Study of Nivicolous Species of Myxomycetes (France, Alps, May 2014), where problems of myxomycetes conservation were discussed with specialists and amateurs. |
| Scientific/technical activities | The Cup Fungi, Truffles and Allies Specialist Group published an in-depth study of ten species of desert truffles, including a preliminary evaluation of the conservation status of each; they proposed 30 candidate species for Red Listing and contributed information about them to the Global Fungal Red List Initiative [http://iucn.ekoo.se/]. |
| Scientific/technical activities | The Lichen Specialist Group assessed two lichen species (Anzia centrifuga and Gymnoderma insulare) for the 2014 revision of the IUCN Red List and contributed to the Global Fungal
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