🏞️Human interventions can dramatically alter #ecosystems
Watch this to find out how a fence in Southeast #Australia 🇦🇺 has affected its surroundings and local wildlife
Seeker by The Verge
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Continued #BiodiversityLoss & #ClimateChange will threaten the ability of countries to achieve most of the #SDGs
"The issues of human-induced climate change & loss of #biodiversity are intertwined & must be given the same priority on the political agenda" —Sir Bob Watson
@Davos
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We welcome @BfNCoalition's release of high-level policy recommendations to governments @davos
Such initiatives are vital contributions to the growing wave of awareness & more ambitious action for #biodiversity
#Biodiversity2020 for People & Nature
Live: weforum.org/events/world-eco…
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Did you see @NHM_WPY 2019 Award?🐭
@NHM_London has selected 25📷 from the competition shortlist
Check out these wonderful #wildlife shots from all over the 🌍and vote for the "People's choice" category by 4 Feb :
nhm.ac.uk/visit/wpy/communit…
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"Plant and animal species are disappearing at an ever faster rate due to human activity."
With the help of @IPBES #GlobalAssessment findings, @Europarl_EN shows why MEPs are calling for legally binding targets at #COP15 in Kunming
#Biodiversity2020
📲:europarl.europa.eu/news/en/h…
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Today marks the launch of the 🇨🇱 Chilean National Platform of @IPBES!
Congratulations to all involved - we look forward to working together advancing the #science and raising global awareness for protecting #biodiversity🌿 and #naturebasedsolutions🐝 around the🌎.
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"Businesses can formulate specific pathways to help ‘bend the curve’ of nature loss within the decade by slowing down & halting #BiodiversityLoss, restoring #Nature & contribute to achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century through smart #NatureBasedSolutions"
—@dwaughray #NNER
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Natural History Museum @NHM_London declares #PlanetaryEmergency.
"#ClimateChange, #BiodiversityLoss, ... pollution & deforestation are just some of the crises caused by unsustainable human activity."
"All the warning lights are flashing" @AndyPurvisNHM
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020…
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Happening this week in Bonn: The 14th sessions of the
@IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel(MEP)/Bureau meetings
Among other topics, discussions on the 3 ongoing #IPBES assessments: #SustainableUse of wild species, #values and #invasive alien species.
#Biodiversity2020
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Although <1% of land is used for mining, it has negative impacts on #biodiversity, #climate, water & heath
Global subsidies for fossil fuels result in US$5trillion in annual costs, including environmental damage
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
🚫No harmful economic policies for #SDG7
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In 2019 @IPBES #GlobalAssessment warned: species #extinction accelerating w/ #ecosystems deteriorating at unprecedented rates & Aichi goals won't be fully met
@UNBiodiversity "Zero Draft" will form the basis for #Biodiversity2020 negotiations
climatechangenews.com/2020/0…
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2020 is crucial to halt #CimateCrisis
What else is on the agenda this year?
"#Nature and whether we can stop harming it"
By undermining important habitats, "we're hacking away at our safety net, we're trashing environments we depend on" —@AndyPurvisNHM
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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🆕@wef "New Nature Economy" series kick off with a special report on #NatureRisk in cooperation with @PwC
Citing the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, the report looks into
🔥the nature emergency
📉hidden risks to business
♻managing nature related risks
& more
weforum.org/reports/nature-r…
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"We all rely on nature and we all take it for granted"
Ahead of the #wef20 in Davos, new @wef report, produced in collaboration with @PwC, is a wake-up call for business and government leaders around the globe.
#Biodiversity2020 #NNER
weforum.org/reports/nature-r…
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🐬homecoming in #Washington, DC?
“People actually forgot that there were #dolphins in the Potomac river because they hadn’t been seen since the 1880s & because the river was in poor condition, people weren't seeing them,”— Melissa Diemand @TheNationsRiver
smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
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🇫🇮"When we lose the #ice, we lose our culture"
Read the story of #Finnish fishermen and find out how #ClimateChange affects the #Nature and traditions of #Arctic #local communities🎣
theecologist.org/2020/jan/14…
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"The #extinction crisis we are living through was given a number
1 Million species are under threat according to @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
Each story of a "saved" species represents years, often decades, of an uphill battle against extinction"
—@BBCNews
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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BBC Springwatch
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The #bushfiresAustralia have been a devastating event as the country’s iconic #Wildlife suffers & the landscape turns black
But for #Indigenous peoples, the fire crisis is especially traumatizing: 🔥 has put their cultures & sacred sites at risk
earther.gizmodo.com/bushfire…
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🔷Fluent in English, French AND Spanish?
🔸Passionate about #environment & #biodiversity?
🔷Experienced in #SocialMedia and #Communications?
Apply by Feb 6 to be part of the @IPBES Comms Team in Bonn as Social and Online Media Language Consultant!
bit.ly/IPBESLanguageConsulta…
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