📗Nature's Lexicon: Curious to unlock the enigmatic language of #biodiversity?💭
🌡️ #ClimateChange
🏹 Poaching
🌎 Habitat loss
🐾 #InvasiveAlienSpecies
... are all threats to endemic species.
But what is an endemic species according to @IPBES? ⬇️
#ForNature
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🐊 Preserve #biodiversity
🗻 Protect ecosystems
🪵 Value nature’s contributions to people
📚 Support science
🌍 Contribute to sustainable futures
🔍Learn More ⤵️
ipbes.net/global-assessment
#ForNature
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Forests provide us with clean air, fresh water, carbon storage, and house a majority of Earth's biodiversity.
This is how you can help restore them. #GenerationRestoration
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By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. 🐡🐠🐟
This alarming reality calls for immediate collective action.
Tag someone to take on the challenge to protect our ocean!
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The difference between 1.5°C & 3°C global warming means vastly different scenarios for our future.
The survival of animals, the frequency of disasters, the spread of diseases & more hinge on these few degrees.
We need #ClimateAction now. un.org/actnow via @UNFCCC
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📢 @IPBES has extended the deadline for nominations of experts and fellows for two key initiatives:
☑️ the Monitoring Assessment
☑️ the task forces on scenarios and modelling
Find out how to apply or be nominated.
🔗 ipbes.net/node/59413
Applications will close soon!
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🎉Happy New Year from the @IPBES Secretariat!
Many thanks to the IPBES community for your dedication to nature & the protection of #biodiversity.👏🏽
Do you know the species to which these eyes belong? 👀
Keep an eye out for even more science #ForNature and policy in 2024!🌿👁️
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Nature is full of unexpected adventures😍
🐻❄️ A polar bear waits patiently for a seal, but her cub is taken by surprise when it suddenly appears🦭
🎥@FrRonconi
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We are a super @ipbes team with the amazing guidance of our co-chairs!
To my @IPBES super team #TransformativeChangeAssessment chapter 4 - thank you so much!!!! One more year to go .....@SERGIOLAMBERTUC #EdCarr
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Positive news for #conservation & #biodiversity 👏🏽
"In Belfast, oysters are making a comeback thanks to a nursery installation aimed at boosting marine life & water quality." 🌊
🗞️@physorg_com #ConservationOptimism
phys.org/news/2023-12-native…
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Changes in land and sea use are among the direct drivers of change in nature with the largest global impact.
But which ecosystems are they impacting and how?
Learn more with @IPBES #GlobalAssessment💭ipbes.net/global-assessment
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#Soil pollution impacts 🍎 the food we eat 💨 the air we breathe and 💦 the water we drink!
Learn about the costs of remediation and its alarming increase over time in the Global Assessment of Soil Pollution: doi.org/10.4060/cb4827en
#SoilHealth
Be the solution to #SoilPollution
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Nature is humanity’s greatest ally in tackling the climate crisis and critical to limiting global temperature rise.
Join #GenerationRestoration and take #ClimateAction: decadeonrestoration.org
Via @UNEP
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We already have a powerful and cost-effective way to combat #ClimateChange.
#NaturebasedSolutions can provide around a third of the climate solution. #NatureNow @Nature4Climate
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🌎Biomes, Habitat, Ecosystem🌳
What's the difference? Scale.
Elephants might make their home, or habitat, on the grassy plains of Botswana, part of a larger savannah grassland ecosystem in Africa, part of the larger grassland biome on Earth.🐘
Learn more w/ @InsideNatGeo ⬇️
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A new global inventory of sound production can help us understand aquatic ecosystems better🌊 ⬇️
"This digital database on what animals are known to make sounds is the first of its kind & can revolutionise marine & aquatic science."
🗞️@physorg_com
phys.org/news/2023-12-global…
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