The Food Chain - The fungi kingdom
It’s not just fauna and flora, there’s a third, much overlooked kingdom of life – fungi.
Fungi are essential for plant and soil health, and therefore our own survival.
It’s not just the mushrooms that we eat, in this programme we celebrate fungi in all its forms. Fungi already play important roles in our food production and medicine, scientists are now investigating fungi based solutions for environmental pollution and waste disposal.
We’re joined by biologist Merlin Sheldrake in the United Kingdom, author of ‘Entangled Life’, Giuliana Furci, mycologist and founder of the Fungi Foundation, the world’s first non-governmental organisation for the protection of fungi, based in Chile and Danielle Stevenson, a mycologist looking at soil toxicity in the United States.
(Picture: fungi growing on a log. Credit: BBC)
Presented by Ruth Alexander.
Produced by Beatrice Pickup.
Published on Wednesday, 6th July 2022.
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