ABOUT
FAR SOUTH FUNGI:
INSPIRED BY A FOREST:
Far South Fungi is situated inside 9.5 acres of tall, wet eucalypt forest, deep in Melukerdee land in far south Tasmania.
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Far South Fungi was established to provide fungi talks, educational tools, gifts and souvenirs featuring Australian fungi to raise awareness and help support Australian fungi research organisations such as Fungimap.
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Since 2010 this little patch of forest has been a home, as well as an opportunity to record and study the existing fungi of this ecosystem over time.
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Collections of fungi taken from this forest have been included in both Australian and international studies including for Amanita, Hericium, Tylopilus and Agaricus genus.
Whilst a lot of time is spent alone in the forest observing fungi, it has certainly not been a lone fungi journey.
This long term fungi survey project has benefitted through the ongoing support in particular, of Tasmanian mycologists Drs. Genevieve Gates & David Ratkowsky.
Both these scientists have contributed many hundreds of hours to vastly increasing our knowledge and interest in Tasmanian fungi with the publication of A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi in 2014.
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PROJECTS
We believe that education is the key to creating a more sustainable future.
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We have worked with a variety of organisations helping to help raise awareness around the importance of Australian fungi.
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We do this in different ways including: educational talks & workshops, digitisation of fungi for research, multimedia, science writing and raising funds for Australian fungi research.
