Established in 2014, this award is named in memory of Dr Ross Beever, senior scientist and mycologist at Landcare Research, widely published plant pathologist of international repute, plant geneticist, mentor and friend to many, and life member of the Fungal Network of NZ (FUNNZ).
Great to see that the mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is prominent on the new $50 note design refresh.
A major new publication from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and IUCN addresses the question "Priceless or Worthless?" concerning some of the globe's most endangered species. A list of 100 species is used as examples of likely extinctions unless humans intervene. And included among the 100 - as a world first - is a FUNGUS! At last - recognition at global level that fungi can be threatened too!
Geoff Ridley, past mycologist at SCION and author of popular guides on New Zealand Fungi, maintains a blog ...
Green-fingered and threatened plant scientist Dr Peter de Lange from the Department of Conservation on the great bio-mass that grows around us... so, what is a plant?!"
We now have an easy blogging format on FUNNZ.org.nz where you can add your notes on all things mycological. Jerry Cooper has already added ten posts on everything from Frost flat fungi to the Yin-Yang fungus. Anyone who has signed up as a user of this website can post here, it is great for small articles that don't need to go into the member's reports section.
Go to the FUNNZ MycoBlog.
This afternoon the Radio New Zealand National show "This Way Up" had a 31 min feature on NZ fungi and foraying.
Simon Morton (the presenter) spoke to Eugenia Bone, chair of the New York Mycological Society and the author of 'Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms', and spoke to NZ mycologist Geoff Ridley. Listen below:
Flickr is a photosharing website, and there is a group there dedicated to photos of NZ fungi: http://www.flickr.com/groups/nzfungi/ 
This picture of Coprinellus disseminatus is one example of the great photos available on the Flickr website.
Welcome to the newly designed FUNNZ website. The website uses the Drupal content management system, which makes it really easy for users to add, edit, and comment on pages. To comment and vote in polls you need to sign in, but I have made this as easy as possible, by using OpenID, so you can sign in with your google account or similar (if you want to). Full instructions on how to do that are here. How we use the website is really up to you. If people want it I can also enable discussion forums.
The Ross Beever Memorial Fellowship aims to provide the opportunity for a post-graduate researcher with an outstanding established track record in fungal taxonomy, fungal genetics, plant pathology or botany to work with Landcare Research for up to two years. For this inaugural Fellowship, preference will be given to candidates with research experience in taxonomy of hypogeous fungi and with intent to prepare an inventory of New Zealand species and undertake taxonomic research on a key group, building on Ross's existing research on these fungi.
