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Hi everyone, I just sent everyone a Mailchimp email about the poisoning prevention campaign. It can be forwarded to contacts who may be interested in supporting the effort. It links to the following Fundrazr page: https://fnd.us/HCSI-Poisoning-Prevention?ref=sh_6ALHIa These are our main promotional materials for the campaign. If any other resources would help raise awareness and funds, you can let me know and I will work on getting those ready as well. Thank you all again for your work in helping prevent these poisonings! Best, Liam

Sam and I got to meet with Liam today and walk together by the Chattahoochee River. LOVELY and fun. So grateful for all the connections. Video Idea: Liam was describing that Dr. Devkota will be headed to villages to educate people and leave posters with them. I suggested that someone could use a cell phone to record his presentation. This would mean there could be a recording of him doing his educational program and then this could be dubbed and replayed for other parts of Nepal with different dialects. Liam had mentioned that there would be a videographer traveling with Rick, so this is another possibility, however, I was trying to think of something accessible and easy. Raising Funds: The North American Mycological Association (NAMA) does have affiliation with clubs in the US, Canada and Mexico. So writing something up about the project to share with other clubs and sending it on could help raise funds for this project. Matching Funds: Liam mentioned that HCSI could then do matching funds as well. Paypal: Sam mentioned that being able to pay HCSI by clicking on a link would be helpful. He had to use a credit card and it was a bit cumbersome. Liam said he should be able to make PayPal payment possible. Meeting on Wed: to be arranged by Liam with Dr. Devkota, the two of us and I believe Rick also. More to come, Thank you all, Cornelia On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 3:02:29 PM EDT, Liam Torpy <torpyliam@...> wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Liam Torpy, and I am the program director of the Himalayan Climate & Science Institute. First and foremost, I'd like to thank you all very much for your contribution to Shiva's important work of helping to prevent fatal mushroom poisonings. It is great seeing your commitment to helping rural communities of Nepal and this discussion about project strategies. On a personal note, it's also interesting to see our shared connections/geographies. I'm from North Decatur in Atlanta. Last year, my parents had a major eruption of chanterelles in their yard which was very exciting. Also, Lily, I did my undergraduate senior thesis research outside of Tarangire National Park, studying the status of a large mammal migration corridor north of the park. As Shiva wrote above, I will be in Atlanta this week. If anyone would like to meet on Thursday (6/9), Friday (6/10), or this coming Monday (6/13), it would be great to talk with you about the project in person. Thank you again for your work. Best, Liam On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 2:00 PM Lily Jane Clarke <highmorelllc@...> wrote: Namaskar all! Sounds like you are working through some great ideas. If they are printed on bags/T-shirts, they will have to be printed as they will easily and quickly be worn through by the level of wear and tear that happens with primary backpacks/T-shirts. Thank you for making this happen! I’ll send you updates on Tanzania when I am home later this month. Love, Lily On Monday, June 6, 2022, Shiva DEVKOTA <shiva.devkota@...> wrote: Dear Cornelia, Thank you very much for your message and suggestions. I truly appreciate the idea to print the image on a collection bag. Here (looking after socio-cultural-economic situation in Nepal), it could be more better if we come up to provide school bags for students with a clear printing message Not to Eat Unknown Mushrooms (in Nepali). Selection of school bags than collection bags is mainly for these purposes: In remote areas, children are forced to walk even for1-2 hrs to reach school from their settlement, and school bags help them in many ways for their comfort (plz find an attached photo which I captured while working in the field - they walk like one hour to reach school crossing all those hills and trails) Still, many students can not afford/get school bags - and if we add a little more amount to "collection Bags" we could hand over bags to children. (Attached: After we handover bags to needy students- 2 years back in one village) Alternatively, we could also print some collection bags as you suggested - which we could give (together with posters) to some real collectors or people with rich

Liam, thank you for putting together our meeting today on Zoom with Dr. Devkota & Rick Silber. Nice meeting you Rick and exciting that you are on the ground in Nepal. We just talked with one of our dear mushroom friends, Elinoar Shavit, who has traveled extensively throughout the world. At every opportunity, she interfaces with indigenous populations to learn about their mushroom traditions. She's published in the Springer volume on truffles. We would like to think this is not true,, but she brought up the point that if the items we hand out are considered valuable in any way, then they will most likely be traded away for cash. We who live in the US, having been more sheltered, possibly could not even picture this scenario, but it is a valid concern and something she has seen happen in other countries. She was very much in favor of the laminated plastic tri-folds similar to what Daniel Winkler produces. It is good to hear that the hospital personnel in Nepal were interested in getting more education about mushrooms. She also had some input about designing a flyer with or without edibles. She thinks both should be included with a clear way to indicate poisonous vs. edible. I can certainly see an argument for including edibles on the flyer because then people would be more likely to keep it with them because they'd consider it a useful resource. We also talked about how global warming in general is changing fungal populations all over the world. That species known elsewhere are popping up in parts of the world where no one is familiar with them. This means that whatever we figure out that is effective in preventing deaths in Nepal, may be helpful in other parts of the world as well. So it was interesting hearing her input and thinking about it further. Please weigh in if you have other thoughts. Thank you everyone, Cornelia

Hi Lily, Wondering if you've been able to get in touch with your journalist friend in Nepal. We just had our Mushroom Club of Georgia board meeting and our club is ready to donate money* to help with this effort. It'd be cool if we had a foundation to send it to (how fast can that be set up?), or, I'm wondering, do you or anyone else have some thinking on how we should handle distribution of funds? Hoping we can beat the poisonings this year, Cornelia *at least $500.00 On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 3:59 PM, Lily Jane Clarke <highmorelllc@...> wrote: Cornelia, I cannot thank you enough for connecting with Dr. Shiva Devkota and becoming invested in the mushroom poisoning issues of Nepal. This was something that commonly came up during my work there, with explanations that more people were moving to new areas (but people move often historically), that snakes had bitten the mushrooms and therefore poisoned them (religious explanations), and others. I would love to be involved in the kind of book/zine project you mentioned, with ease of drawings/photographs to assist in identification regardless of language spoken. I have a good friend in Nepal who is a media journalist, I could contact her and ask her if she knows of artists who would be interested in the project (she is well connected to the artist community in Kathmandu). I wonder if we could put on a crowdfunding campaign to support the artist. What do you think Cornelia, and other group members?

Cornelia, I cannot thank you enough for connecting with Dr. Shiva Devkota and becoming invested in the mushroom poisoning issues of Nepal. This was something that commonly came up during my work there, with explanations that more people were moving to new areas (but people move often historically), that snakes had bitten the mushrooms and therefore poisoned them (religious explanations), and others. I would love to be involved in the kind of book/zine project you mentioned, with ease of drawings/photographs to assist in identification regardless of language spoken. I have a good friend in Nepal who is a media journalist, I could contact her and ask her if she knows of artists who would be interested in the project (she is well connected to the artist community in Kathmandu). I wonder if we could put on a crowdfunding campaign to support the artist. What do you think Cornelia, and other group members?