2024 was an immensely productive year, with new projects and new partners coming on board.

Have a look at our new brochure describing how our partners in traditional communities restore landscapes, and how it is inspired by mycelia.

While we believe that idea of sustainable development requires some nuance to be truly equitable and beneficial, we nevertheless approve of the general idea of supporting people to meet their basic needs.

I’d never had the courage or occasion to shout “Do you like slime moulds?” to passing strangers before, but then I’d never been to All Things Fungi before.

Recently, we reached the milestone of planting 100,000 mangrove trees. As you can see, the story behind each seedling or seed is deeply connected to many layers. But the effects of these plantings are already visible: the soil is healthier, crabs are reappearing more frequently, and fishermen have reported seeing even a manatee.

Woodturning is a very particular passion, and its practitioners gather to share their hobby at the annual symposium of the American Association of Woodturners. This year’s event brought together 1200 artists, craftspeople and collectors, with guest speaker and forest ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni giving the keynote address. Nalini gave a fascinating talk, drawing out the connection between her hobby at the lathe and her work in the canopy of the Costa Rican rainforest.

Cellist James Barralet plays Bach to support the tree that gave voice to the strings.

Man Runs 250km Across the Sahara to save Rainforests

New brand and projects for 2024

Organising, managing and moving information presents a set of problems, regardless of whether the connections are via wires or living fungal threads, and systems architects and nature have come to very similar solutions. We still have a lot to learn from nature’s networks.

Over 14,000 saplings of the endangered pernambuco tree have been distributed from our nursery at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, and planted at various locations on the Atlantic coast.

Priscila borrows a pick up truck and took 80 saplings and a rucksack full of food to join the Guarani nation rebuilding their sacred village. Follow her on her journey…

Partnership with the Guarani nation to regenerate the Atlantic Forest more urgent than ever after an arson attack at a sacred site.

On World Soil Day, go and get dirty, plant a tree, make a mudpie, and make some compost! Healthy soil is full of life, with over a billion bacteria and yards of fungal threads.

Happy National Fungus Day to our fungal friends and friends-to-be!
Fungi are successful because they know how to share. How can this inform the workings of a charity? Read on…

When our partners at Pernambuco University began setting up demonstration centres with black women’s groups in Brazilian slums, they never imagined that their work would find its way to the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

We have part-funded our project with the Kaingang nation, to plant their sacred tree in order to regenerated their ancestral lands. The project will start with a road trip to collect a range of seeds, that will be planted in the new nursery.

As summer holidays in a heatwave draw to a close, and parents and teachers start to think about lessons for the new school year, what can we do to prepare young people for the challenges they are facing?

RAIN was privileged to present our projects and the wonder of mycelial networks to Reset Connect at ExCel for London Climate Action Week.

Our partners in the Terena media collective introduce the Indigenous photographic exhibition at the University of Mato Grosso do Sul.