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Fungal conservation in Arab countries

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Biodiversity and Conservation
Fungi
Symbiosis

Abstract

At the end of 2010 a group of Egyptian scientists and volunteers launched a series of activities to shed the light on fungi and fungal conservation. They organized more than 15 workshops organized by Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Egypt. The major objects of the aforementioned workshops were to raise the national awareness on Biodiversity and Conservation of Fungi. In 2013, Abdel-Azeem founded the Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (ASFC) as a pioneer society for fungal conservation in the Arab world and North of Africa. The society founded in Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, Egypt as a private, voluntary, non-governmental organization. In 2016, Abdel-Azeem founded the Egypt's Mycologists Network (EMN) as a structured network of Egyptian mycologists, with a steering committee to guide and promote best practices, and to resolve relevant problems through collaboration between mycologists, amateur fungal groups, fungal conservation societies, regional natural parks and environmental agencies. Recently by the end of 2020 and due to these previous activities various networks have been founded by ASFC in Iraq, Algeria and Pakistan by mycologists and academia from these countries to illustrate the concept of fungal conservation through collaboration between decision makers, mycologists, fungal conservation societies, individual enthusiasts, national protectorates and environmental agencies. Based on aforementioned information we presented here the updated news concerning Fungal conservation efforts in Arab countries.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2021.93278.1039

Keywords

Arab Society for Fungal Conservation, Algeria, Desert truffles, Helvella, Iraq

Authors

First Name

Teroj

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Dental Basic Sciences, College of Dentistry, University of Duhok, Iraq.

Email

teroj.mohamed@uod.ac

City

Duhok

Orcid

https://orcid.org/00

First Name

Rabab

Last Name

Abed

MiddleName

Majead

Affiliation

Department of Biology, College of Education and Pure Science, University of Diyala, Baqubah, Iraq

Email

rabab.majead81@gmail.com

City

Diyala

Orcid

0000-0002-5673-6346

First Name

Milad

Last Name

Mezher

MiddleName

Adnan

Affiliation

Department of Biology, College of Education and Pure Science, University of Tikrit, Iraq.

Email

miladadnan@tu.edu.iq

City

Baghdad

Orcid

0000-0003-3187-4109

First Name

Hebatallah

Last Name

Abo Nahas

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt

Email

hebatallah_hassan@science.suez.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-7072-8510

First Name

Wassima

Last Name

Lakhdari

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Plant Protection, Institute of Agronomic Research of Algeria, Algeria.

Email

lakhdariwassima@yahoo.fr

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-2603-7955

First Name

Shimal

Last Name

Abdul-Hadi

MiddleName

Younis

Affiliation

Department of Biology, Education College for Pure Sciences, University of Mosul, Iraq

Email

shimalyounis2018@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-3879-944X

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdel-Azeem

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt

Email

ahmed_abdelazeem@science.suez.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

Orcid

0000-0003-2897-3966

Volume

6

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

24927

Issue Date

2021-06-01

Receive Date

2021-08-29

Publish Date

2021-08-29

Page Start

32

Page End

34

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_191843.html

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4

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Notes and News

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1,864

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Fungal conservation in Arab countries

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023