🌾Even when habitats and species are protected, decline often continues, caused mostly by intensive agriculture, urbanisation, unsustainable forestry activities & changes to freshwater habitats
- @EUEnvironment
👇See infographic on the conservation status of species in Europe🇪🇺
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#DYK that a healthy soil can benefit #biodiversity in many ways? 🌳
📌Habitat for organisms
📌Carbon storage
📌Medium for plant growth
📌Water & Climate regulator
🖼️ @unccd & @stella_caraman_
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#Biodiversity loss & #ClimateChange:
🌐Are driven by human economic activities
🤝Reinforce each other
🌏Increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods & well-being worldwide
Neither will be resolved unless both are tackled together.
🎥@UNDP
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The @ipbes #ValuesAssessment provides guidance on the diverse values of nature and how to integrate them into decision-making.
Explore 4 main section themes in the summary for policymakers💡
🔖 ipbes.net/the-values-assessm…
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On #WorldRefugeeDay⬇️
Let's acknowledge the resilience & courage of those forced to flee their countries to escape conflict, persecution, the effects of #ClimateChange & environmental degradation, among other reasons.
📷🗞️@Refugees
unhcr.org/world-refugee-day
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📣 Calling all #IPBESstakeholders!
Join us at Stakeholder Day just before #IPBES10 on 🗓️ 27 August 2023, Bonn, Germany.
Reg. deadline: 10 August 2023 ⤵️
ipbes.net/ipbes-10/registrat…
🔗 Agenda available in July:
ipbes.net/ipbes-10/stakehold…
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📢JOB OPPORTUNITY at @IPBES !💡
We are looking for a Programme Management Officer - Head of Development (P3), to be based in the IPBES Secretariat Office in Bonn. 🇩🇪
⏳Apply by 14 July 2023.
Learn more:
careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail…
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Life on Earth depends on healthy #soil. 🌿🌦️
Healthy soil is fundamental for:
🌱#Biodiversity
🌽Agricultural productivity
💧Clean water and flood prevention
🌡#ClimateChange mitigation
🌏& more...
👇Find out more with @fao
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What is this? A jellyfish?🌊
Despite the "jelly" in its name, the blue button jelly isn't one - it's a Hydrozoan.
Unlike jellyfish, these tiny organisms, usually 30mm in diameter, are only capable of drifting on the ocean surface.
🎥@Elizabeth_Ruler
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Gender equality is key to deliver sustainable & meaningful action to avoid, reduce & reverse land degradation.🌱
Tackling #ClimateChange & #Biodiversity loss has no gender
On this #DesertificationAndDroughtDay, @IPBES reaffirms the importance of gender equality🌿
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