Share through your school newsletter the Do not touch, pick or eat any wild mushrooms (24 kb Word) information sheet and remind your school community of the risks of death cap mushroom poisoning.

The ACT Health Directorate is warning schools and preschools that death cap mushrooms are growing in the ACT. They are a deadly poisonous fungus.

If death cap mushrooms are growing on your school grounds:

• keep children and animals away

• remove the whole mushroom using gloves or a tool, including any part under the ground

• secure it in a plastic bag

• place it into a rubbish bin that cannot be accessed by children, to go to landfill, and

• wash your hands.

Also, monitor the site frequently for further growth and remove mushrooms before mowing to prevent spreading; and do not compost them.

Death cap mushrooms in public places can be reported at Fix My Street, or by calling Access Canberra on 13 22 81. More information is available at www.act.gov.au by searching death cap mushrooms, including some translated resources.