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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Beament

World’s fungi at risk from agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl – experts

The splendid waxcap mushroom is assessed as vulnerable (John Bjarne Jordal/PA) -

More than 1,000 of the world’s fungi species have been assessed for their extinction risk, revealing many of the “unsung heroes” of life on Earth are under threat.

The finding comes in the latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which also reveals that frankincense trees face an increasing risk of extinction.

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