The Fungal Conservation Pledge, launched by Chile and the United Kingdom in 2024, has now been signed by 17 countries. Also, recommendations from two UN biodiversity scientific advisory meetings have included fungi across four policy areas, bringing them into the decisions and discussions leading up to COP17. Fungal conservation is gaining ground in international policy. As governments gather in Yerevan for the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP17), fungal biodiversity is gainin