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Facilitamos la exploración, descubrimiento, documentación, conservación y preservación del reino más importante del mundo, los hongos.
Giuliana Furci
Director Ejecutivo (Fundación Fungi)
Fungi enables us to create processed materials. Simultaneously, it can help us to digest certain materials. Plastics, for instance. Fungi is nature's recycler.
Fungi are responsible for almost all our food production. Without Fungi, you wouldn’t get your weekend beer or wine.
… and +2000 new ones are discovered each year. This is your chance to discover one and get it named after you.
+200 million lives have been saved due to the world’s most famous Fungi, Penicillium, which is used in crafting the medication process of Penicillin.
Did you know that the largest living organism is a single gigantic specimen of honey mushroom?
216 species of fungi are thought to be psychedelic. Some of them are investigated to cure mental disease.
We campaign for the protection of fungal habitats, and undertake conservatory activities to create a thriving future for the Fungi.
We discover and catalog the fungal diversity of the last wild places on Earth.
Explore our collaborations across disciplines to support the creation of a new mycological paradigm.
We develop online resources to educate people about Fungi and its impact & reach, and influence people to teach about Fungi and contribute to its preservation.
We document and celebrate the ancestral relationships between humans and fungi.
La Fungi Foundation y sus colaboradores trabajan para los hongos, sus hábitats y las personas que dependen de ellos.
Fundación Fungi es la primera ONG del mundo que trabaja íntegramente por la protección y promoción de los hongos
La Fundación Fungi es una organización global que explora los Hongos para aumentar el conocimiento de su diversidad, promover soluciones innovadoras a problemas contingentes, educar sobre su existencia y aplicaciones responsables, así como recomendar políticas públicas para su conservación.
Hongo del Dia
Un hongo clásico descomponedor de color blanco. Es endémico de la Patagonia chilena y Argentina. Ha sido investigado en estudios de micorremediación para el tratamiento de aguas y suelos contaminados.
Nuestras iniciativas están creando un planeta saludable, en el que los hongos son reconocidos como los interconectores y recicladores de la naturaleza. A continuación puede encontrar algunas de las publicaciones de nuestro blog.
Giuliana Furci founds the Fungi Foundation.
Fungi are effectively included in Chilean environmental law (in the reform to the Law on General Bases of the Environment, No.19.300.
The Foundation’s collection of dehydrated fungi is indexed in the Index Herbariorum, coordinated by the New York Botanical Garden. The code FFCL is assigned to our collection which is the first exclusive collection of fungi in Chile.
Fundación Fungi, along with the National Museum of Natural History, create the exhibition “Fungi, A Kingdom to be Discovered”, which travels through Chilean cities. This is the first exhibition exclusively on Fungi in Chile’s history.
