Hi Lily and all. Is there a PayPal account we can send the money to? If not, what is the best way to get funds to the correct place?

Sam and Cornelia.

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Thank you for your thoughts Shiva Sir. Since it sounds like the club voted to create the pamphlet with an artist, it sounds like they need to discuss what they are willing to pay for. You shared with us that grant, have you not received funding for it yet? Thank you for letting us know that printing posters may be the most productive, I will let Cornelia and the club decide. I love the idea of working with the artist, but I also know that wild mushroom season is here and you already have programs underway. Cornelia and the club, what do you think?

Great work shiva sir!

Sincerely,

Lily?

On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Shiva DEVKOTA <shiva.devkota@...> wrote:

Dear Lily

Namaste

Thank you for your message and wonderful discussions so far.

I've been figuring out the best way to deal directly with the survivors and to reach out to?poisoning?prone areas this season. So, after discussion with health workers and local government representatives (newly elected) from Palpa area, they will recommend me similar area as the poisoning cases that happened last years killing six fungus eaters.

So, it is discussed to provide printed posters and organize awareness classes to locals / including students. So, available USD500 from the will be solely used to print posters (with revised edition) and transportation this time. I'm optimistic in getting additional sufficient funding from other organizations to design/create a small booklet of art, more pamphlets and leaflets for the communication. In such cases, we will request Ruby ji for her creativity and support - which will be more insightful. Is it sound OK Lily? or plz suggest me your ideas?

Looking forward,

With kindest regards

Shiva

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 3:38 PM Lily Jane Clarke <highmorelllc@...> wrote:

Namaste all and dhanyabaad Shiva Sir for providing us with insights and pictures from your latest work.

Reading your proposal and seeing the work you have done recently to try and prevent mushroom poisonings in Nepal, what do you think the best use of the club's $500 contribution is? Since you did posters, I am wondering if you could share the poisonous and nonpoisonous mushroom communications from your posters with the artist, so that she could create a small booklet of art that communicates which mushrooms are poisonous (with her art, she can emphasize the parts of the mushrooms people look out for). What do you think? Let us know, as you are the expert in this area. Thank you for all of the good work that you do!

Sincerely,

Lily

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:33 PM <shiva.devkota@...> wrote:

Hi Cornelia and colleagues,
Apologies for the delay as was out of the desk for weeks. Indeed, it was nice talking with you Cornelia and thanks to Lily for establishing this connectivity.?

Meaningful artwork by Rubi ji is really fascinating and I'm sure that will bring interlinkages between science-art-society. I have a kind of feeling that we could make a project to bring a booklet bringing all her creativity on mushrooms mainly targeting rural mountain dwellers/children who could grasp messages instantly with her fineworks.

I really like the idea by Michael Yeh -Safe vs dangerous visual checklist for instant awareness purposes. I may provide several edible and poisonous mushrooms species from the Nepal Himalaya to design such posters. Thank you very much. A symbol to indicate death/danger is the same as you suggested. For the moment (depends on budget), what we could implement is:

-Posters design + printing (Waterproof).
-Awareness camps to school childrens
- Awareness camps to local collectors and local communities
- Tie up with health professionals, hospitals, healthposts?
- Establish linkages with conservation bodies (national parks, wildlife reserves) to disseminate/distribute posters to local users groups.
-Radio programme in local FM stations

Plz, find project's concept (with activities, working areas, tentative budget) for the further discussion and to disseminate to generate funds if it deems necessary to share. Which we prepared last year.?


Last year, we organized two trips to most poisoning prone areas with support from the Himalayan Climate & Science Institue HCSI ()?located in the Washington DC USA. Rick Silber [ rsilber@... ] - Very nice colleague/mentor of mine and Secretary, Mycological Association of Washington, DC together with programme manager of HCSI - Liam Torpy (orpyliam@...) have provided their efforts. Should we bring synergy being together Cornelia? Liam, will be in Atlanta from June 8th-14th. He remains available if further in-person discussion together with club members is necessary. If you like, you could add Richard and Liam in our discussion group.

Furthermore, as you asked funding for the implementation of the activities herein Nepal, can be send via HCSI - USA as it is charity organization. All the expenses will be handled responsibly in Nepal, providing every receipts and vouchers.

Plz find some pictures on mushrooms poisoning activities for your references and information.?

Once thank you for your kind interest on this critical (but overlooked) issue in Nepal and hope we will be able to save lives and sensitize rural people on this poisnong aspects.

Looking forward,
Shiva
(My WhatsApp number is +977 9841 317188)


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Shiva DEVKOTA, PhD

Research Fellow,?Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies,?Kathmandu, Nepal?

Co-Chair, Himalayan Climate and Science Institute, Washington DC, USA

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Namaste all and dhanyabaad Shiva Sir for providing us with insights and pictures from your latest work.

Reading your proposal and seeing the work you have done recently to try and prevent mushroom poisonings in Nepal, what do you think the best use of the club's $500 contribution is? Since you did posters, I am wondering if you could share the poisonous and nonpoisonous mushroom communications from your posters with the artist, so that she could create a small booklet of art that communicates which mushrooms are poisonous (with her art, she can emphasize the parts of the mushrooms people look out for). What do you think? Let us know, as you are the expert in this area. Thank you for all of the good work that you do!

Sincerely,

Lily

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:33 PM <shiva.devkota@...> wrote:

Hi Cornelia and colleagues,
Apologies for the delay as was out of the desk for weeks. Indeed, it was nice talking with you Cornelia and thanks to Lily for establishing this connectivity.?

Meaningful artwork by Rubi ji is really fascinating and I'm sure that will bring interlinkages between science-art-society. I have a kind of feeling that we could make a project to bring a booklet bringing all her creativity on mushrooms mainly targeting rural mountain dwellers/children who could grasp messages instantly with her fineworks.

I really like the idea by Michael Yeh -Safe vs dangerous visual checklist for instant awareness purposes. I may provide several edible and poisonous mushrooms species from the Nepal Himalaya to design such posters. Thank you very much. A symbol to indicate death/danger is the same as you suggested. For the moment (depends on budget), what we could implement is:

-Posters design + printing (Waterproof).
-Awareness camps to school childrens
- Awareness camps to local collectors and local communities
- Tie up with health professionals, hospitals, healthposts?
- Establish linkages with conservation bodies (national parks, wildlife reserves) to disseminate/distribute posters to local users groups.
-Radio programme in local FM stations

Plz, find project's concept (with activities, working areas, tentative budget) for the further discussion and to disseminate to generate funds if it deems necessary to share. Which we prepared last year.?


Last year, we organized two trips to most poisoning prone areas with support from the Himalayan Climate & Science Institue HCSI ()?located in the Washington DC USA. Rick Silber [ rsilber@... ] - Very nice colleague/mentor of mine and Secretary, Mycological Association of Washington, DC together with programme manager of HCSI - Liam Torpy (orpyliam@...) have provided their efforts. Should we bring synergy being together Cornelia? Liam, will be in Atlanta from June 8th-14th. He remains available if further in-person discussion together with club members is necessary. If you like, you could add Richard and Liam in our discussion group.

Furthermore, as you asked funding for the implementation of the activities herein Nepal, can be send via HCSI - USA as it is charity organization. All the expenses will be handled responsibly in Nepal, providing every receipts and vouchers.

Plz find some pictures on mushrooms poisoning activities for your references and information.?

Once thank you for your kind interest on this critical (but overlooked) issue in Nepal and hope we will be able to save lives and sensitize rural people on this poisnong aspects.

Looking forward,
Shiva
(My WhatsApp number is +977 9841 317188)


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Hi Cornelia and colleagues,
Apologies for the delay as was out of the desk for weeks. Indeed, it was nice talking with you Cornelia and thanks to Lily for establishing this connectivity.?

Meaningful artwork by Rubi ji is really fascinating and I'm sure that will bring interlinkages between science-art-society. I have a kind of feeling that we could make a project to bring a booklet bringing all her creativity on mushrooms mainly targeting rural mountain dwellers/children who could grasp messages instantly with her fineworks.

I really like the idea by Michael Yeh -Safe vs dangerous visual checklist for instant awareness purposes. I may provide several edible and poisonous mushrooms species from the Nepal Himalaya to design such posters. Thank you very much. A symbol to indicate death/danger is the same as you suggested. For the moment (depends on budget), what we could implement is:

-Posters design + printing (Waterproof).
-Awareness camps to school childrens
- Awareness camps to local collectors and local communities
- Tie up with health professionals, hospitals, healthposts?
- Establish linkages with conservation bodies (national parks, wildlife reserves) to disseminate/distribute posters to local users groups.
-Radio programme in local FM stations

Plz, find project's concept (with activities, working areas, tentative budget) for the further discussion and to disseminate to generate funds if it deems necessary to share. Which we prepared last year.?


Last year, we organized two trips to most poisoning prone areas with support from the Himalayan Climate & Science Institue HCSI ()?located in the Washington DC USA. Rick Silber [ rsilber@... ] - Very nice colleague/mentor of mine and Secretary, Mycological Association of Washington, DC together with programme manager of HCSI - Liam Torpy (orpyliam@...) have provided their efforts. Should we bring synergy being together Cornelia? Liam, will be in Atlanta from June 8th-14th. He remains available if further in-person discussion together with club members is necessary. If you like, you could add Richard and Liam in our discussion group.

Furthermore, as you asked funding for the implementation of the activities herein Nepal, can be send via HCSI - USA as it is charity organization. All the expenses will be handled responsibly in Nepal, providing every receipts and vouchers.

Plz find some pictures on mushrooms poisoning activities for your references and information.?

Once thank you for your kind interest on this critical (but overlooked) issue in Nepal and hope we will be able to save lives and sensitize rural people on this poisnong aspects.

Looking forward,
Shiva
(My WhatsApp number is +977 9841 317188)


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Here an interesting approach I was told by a retired forester in Bhutan, and I wrote up for my upcoming book on edible mushrooms

all the best, Daniel

During a mushroom hunt in an oak forest near Jakar, Bhutan, we were looking at a cluster of brown mushrooms sprouting seemingly from the ground. They looked familiar, but I could not place them right away. Jigme, a retired forest worker who had joined our foray, was unsure too, but he wanted to collect them for a meal, stating “If I don’t know a mushroom, I parboil them to render them edible.”

I was shocked how a person would reach his advanced age consuming unknown mushrooms and trusting in heat detoxification, a process that will not eliminate deadly amatoxins. I questioned him further and he shared a rule to his free-style approach: NEVER eat any gilled mushroom that has a RING on the stem!

Very interesting, I thought, since several deadly mushrooms have a ring like Amanitas, Pholiotina, Galerina, Lepiota. Still, this is not a reliable approach. I repeat: please do not start cooking up all ringless mushrooms! For example, the very toxic Amanita smithiana, the most dangerous matsutake doppelganger, has when fresh only flaky remnants of a ring that quickly shrivel up to nothing. The mushroom that evoked my exchange with Jigme turned out to be a honey mushroom growing from wood underground and sporting a fibrous partial veil on the stem. Cooking renders the honey edible for most people