🦀This crab making sand balls deserves a look!
Sand bubbler crabs measure ~1cm & work incredibly fast. Passing grains of sand into their mouths, they filter out meiofauna & discard cleaned grains in balls, so as to not sift the same sand twice
🎥@stretta
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Happy #AfricaEnvironmentDay!🌍
#DYK The Congo forests of Central Africa & the Miombo-Mopane woodlands and grasslands are among the world's most renowned wilderness areas?
—@IPBES Africa #RegionalAssessment
Look at this visualization of Africa's forests by @grasshoppergeo🌳
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Are you an external reviewer for the @ipbes #TransformativeChange Assessment?
Don't forget to attend the virtual stakeholder dialogue with the assessment co-chairs on 8 March. All registered reviewers are invited.
✍️You can still sign up as a reviewer:
ipbes.net/notification/live-…
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Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! 🐯🪲🐟🦩🌿
The @ipbes #SustainableUse of Wild Species Assessment was requested by @cites, among others.
It is through close collaboration and partnerships that we can make a difference #ForNature.
#WWD2023
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"When global crises are interlinked, the most effective solutions are those working at the nexus of them all."
Op-ed by the co-chairs of the @ipbes #NexusAssessment on the interlinkages among #biodiversity, water, food & health
🗞️@IPSNewsUNBureau
ipsnews.net/2023/03/interwov…
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Today is #AfricaEnvironmentDay!🦁
Africa is home to an incredible diversity of animals & plants!🌳🦓This #biodiversity is key to sustainable development & to fighting #ClimateChange.
Let's Act Together For Africa's Nature!🌺
Learn more w/ @ipbes #RegionalAssessment for Africa.
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Happy World Wildlife Day & 50th Anniversary to @cites. 🎉
#DYK that the @ipbes #SustainableUse Assessment of Wild Species was carried out in response to requests from @cites, among others?🌿🦜
#WWD2023
📷@WildlifeDay
Full report➡️ ipbes.net/sustainable-use-as…
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1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction
Unsustainable, illegal & unregulated use of species is a large part of the problem.
—@andersen_inger
On #WorldWildlifeDay, learn how to sustainably benefit from wild species w/ @ipbes #SustainableUse Assessment
#WWD2023
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Celebrate wild species on #WorldWildlifeDay!🌿
The use of wild species is vital to human communities, but their unsustainable use increases the risk of their extinction.
Find out how ppl can benefit more sustainably from wild species in @ipbes #SustainableUse report.
#WWD2023
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