The U.S. Congress has invited @IPBES to testify on the #GlobalAssessment!
Watch the Facebook livestream tomorrow at 4 p.m. CEST / 10 a.m. EDT.
Click here to get reminded when we're live: bit.ly/IPBESTestifies
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🎧Listen now in full to the key messages from @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Report: now available as an audiobook!
We thank @AndyPurvisNHM, one of the CLAs of the Report, who generously offered to lend his voice for #biodiversity.
#BiodiversityDay #IDB2019
youtube.com/rCiqij0dIGM
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"More than a million species are at risk of extinction according to a new report on #biodiversity. But even some species that aren’t considered endangered may be less safe than people think." —@wef take on a new study by @JAppliedEcology
#BiodiversityDay
weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/b…
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Wednesday 22 May is #BiodiversityDay! #IDB2019 celebrates: Our #Biodiversity, Our #Food, Our #Health!
#BiodiversityIsFood #BiodiversityIsHealth
Eager to take action?
Learn more about what you can do on the @UNBiodiversity Day for Biological Diversity:
cbd.int/idb/2019/
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The Media Has Missed A Crucial Message of the UN’s Biodiversity Report via @thenation thenation.com/article/biodiv…
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An estimated 80% of the #pollination of global crops can be attributed to the activities of just 2% of wild #bee species! #WorldBeeDay
#Bees and other #pollinators such as bats and birds play a crucial role for #agriculture, #foodsecurity and human well-being.
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The health of #pollinators like #bees is "directly linked to our own well being." —Prof. Vera L. Imperatriz-Fonseca
This #WorldBeeDay, revisit the 2016 @IPBES #Pollination Assessment.
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ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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For #WorldBeeDay, @UNEnvironment Chemicals and Health Branch has highlighted key facts about the effects of #pesticides on #pollinators - predominantly on #bees.
Download the visual booklet now:
bit.ly/VisualBookletPollinat…
#SaveTheBees
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Happy #WorldBeeDay!
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#Bees play an essential role in #pollination and are crucial for #foodsecurity.
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Hi @Honxqp thanks for sharing. Can you please send us a contact email for you to media@ipbes.net
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Without pollinators, we would not #Bee 🐝 able to grow many of the world's essential crops! #WorldBeeDay
Give #Bees a chance!
#Pollination #foodsecurity
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What do we say when death comes for the insects? “Not today!”
@thehill draws parallels between #GameofThrones penultimate episode and declining #biodiversity around the globe, based on @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Report (SPOLER ALERT!)
thehill.com/opinion/energy-e…
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The Call to Action issued by the Nature Champions Summit highlights interlinkages among global challenges such as #biodiversity loss and #climatechange, and calls for a global mobilization, including a commitment to “put nature first” in all decisions.
sdg.iisd.org/news/nature-cha…
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#Conservation success from Zanzibar:
The endemic red colobus monkey, one of the rarest primates in Africa and found only on Zanzibar’s main island, has seen population rise from 2000 in 1990s to 5000 individuals now — @mongabay reports.
news.mongabay.com/2019/05/re…
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"The Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act will reconnect important landscapes and protect species in the face of #ClimateChange and development. The UN @IPBES report makes it clear – we cannot wait any longer to take action."
npca.org/articles/2174-bipar…
@SenatorTomUdall
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Monday 20 May is World #Bee Day!
Happy #WorldBeeDay!
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#Bees play an essential role in #pollination and are crucial for #foodsecurity.
#EUGreenWeek #ZeroHunger
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U.S. Congress has invited @IPBES to testify on the #GlobalAssessment!
On 22 May, #BiodiversityDay, the #IPBES slogan 'Science and Policy for People and Nature' will be well-served in Washington D.C. as experts including Sir Bob Watson testify.
naturalresources.house.gov/h…
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The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Report is the first of its scale to incorporate the knowledge of #Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
“Indigenous and local knowledge is a huge ‘knowledge bank’ of humanity” - Zsolt Molnar, CLA #ILK
inverse.com/article/55603-gl…
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We would like the #GlobalAssessment Report to give the world a real message of hope.
We have not lost the battle.
If given the chance, nature will reconquer its rights and will prevail.
—@IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie
Al Jazeera English
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