Perth and Australian Fundraiser for
International Society for Fungal Conservation
By Sapphire McMullan-Fisher & Roz Hart
We had a successful fund raising day at Star Swamp on Sunday
25 May 2014. Star Swamp is a bushland area close to the coast on Quindalup dunes
in the suburbs to the north of Perth. It is managed by The City of Stirling who
kindly allowed us to share the use of the Henderson Environmental Centre with
the Friends of Star Swamp to hold our lunch and a talk at no charge. This was
very generous and allowed all the door takings to be donated to the
International Society for Fungal Conservation (ISFC ).
We modified the “Orphans of Rio” graphic to have a more
positive spin. Also most people don’t understand the “Rio Convention”
(Convention for biological diversity) reference. One Spanish speaker was heard
to say “why are they orphans of the river?” as Rio means “river”. Lots of
education required!
The T-shirts sales raised money for both ISCF and the local
fungi or other conservation group nominated by the purchaser. We managed to
raise money for seven Australian groups. The Albany Wildflower Society is
supportive of fungi conservation and has some active members who are interested
in their lichens.
Fundraising summary:
Group
|
Raised
|
ISCF
|
$34
|
Western Australian Naturalists’ Club Fungi Study
Group
|
$106
|
Fungimap
|
$60
|
Albany Wildflower Society
|
$36
|
Queensland Mycological Society
|
$18
|
Field Naturalists Club of Victoria–Fungi Group
|
$6
|
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| Roz Hart, Russell Chambers,Yvonne Broome and Sapphire McMullan-Fisher of the WA Naturalists’ Club at Mt Lesueur, wearing their fungi T-shirts |
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