Right now @IPBES is holding a workshop for @UNBiodiversity #SBSTTA23 delegates so that they can go into #Biodiversity2020 and the #COP15 process with the best information on #Nature and what can be done to protect #NaturesContributions to People
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🍎#NorthAmerica once had 17,000 named varieties of domesticated #apples, but only about 4,000 remain.
🍏Aiming to boost genetic #biodiversity among modern-day apple crops, The Lost Apple Project is rediscovering types thought to be lost.
csmonitor.com/Environment/20…
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"Healthy #wetlands form part of the solution to #ClimateChange"
@IPBES looks forward to continued collaboration with @RamsarConv in addressing the inseparable threats of #biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange.
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#Biodiversity makes an #ecosystem more likely to adapt and succeed in a changing and warming climate.
New study examines how examined how wave turbulence affects foraging patterns for fish and sea urchins in #Galapagos Islands.
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Congrats to fellow @Voice4Planet partner, the @LionsShareFund for their recognition & €279,000 #SDG award by the @Cannes_Lions
The NGO funds animal conservation by asking companies to donate 0.5% of their media spend for every advert w/ an animal
Info: webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp…
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Examining 37 years of data, new @UMNews research found plant #biodiversity🌿🌳🌱 and productivity struggling to recover, even decades after farmland was abandoned.
@ForestIsbell @idiv @NatureEcoEvo
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Meet the #SustainableUse assmnt authors!
#Biodiversity experts are in #Nairobi developing #SciencePolicy w/ external peer review so govts, experts & stakeholders can review the draft report
Register as an IPBES stakeholder to be notified re. the review!
ipbes.net/stakeholder-regist…
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Decisions about the uses of our increasingly fragile #NaturalResources and how to protect them often fail to account for all the ways that different communities attach value to #nature
🆕article by
@BalvaneraPatty
@unaipasku
@Brigittelgb
@MikeChristieUni
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The world's #wetlands are disappearing all around us
87% of area has already been lost in the modern era
But @AP shows #WhatCanBeSaved and the optimism of large scale #EcosystemRestoration
@RamsarConv
The Associated Press
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It's #WorldFisheriesDay!
Think about the fish we eat: is it #sustainably sourced?
🐠In marine #ecosystems, fishing has had the most impact on biodiversity in the past 50 years
🐟Business-as-usual #fishing scenarios are expected to worsen the status of marine #biodiversity
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BREAKING: @GUCCI CEO challenges CEOs to go #CarbonNeutral
“Given the scientific evidence from the recent @IPBES and @IPCC_CH reports, we don’t have the leisure to just work to avoid and reduce our impact on climate and #biodiversity over the long-term."
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Congratulations to the nearly 40 @IPBES authors, experts, and friends included in the @webofscience 2019 list of #HighlyCitedResearchers!
The @IPBES secretariat has the pleasure of working with some of the greatest minds and people in the world.
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Conserving #wildlife is key to tropical forests’ carbon storage.
New study shows how a decrease in the fruit-eating animals that disperse tree seeds leads to a reduction in #Carbon storage in the tropical #forests of Southeast Asia.
news.mongabay.com/2019/11/co…
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Mass #coral spawning on 🇦🇺's #GreatBarrierReef, "a natural wonder, which has been likened to underwater fireworks or a snowstorm, occurs just once a year in specific conditions: after a full moon🌕 when water temperatures hover around 27 to 28 Celsius."
phys.org/news/2019-11-great-…
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BREAKING NEWS: #SierraLeone 🇸🇱 is @IPBES' 133rd Member State!
"I know you will join me in warmly welcoming Sierra Leone to the growing IPBES family – strengthening science and policy, for people and nature."
– Anne Larigauderie, #IPBES Executive Secretary
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“Loss of #species & #ClimateChange are the two great challenges facing humanity this century"
"The results are clear, we must act now on both”
–Lee Hannah @ConservationOrg
Full article by Farhana Haque Rahman for @ipsnews
ipsnews.net/2019/11/climate-…
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#CMSCOP13 #EcologicalConnectivity theme just revealed!
“Migratory species connect the planet & together we welcome them home”
To @BonnConvention #species connectivity means animals can move naturally throughout their ranges
👉Read the full press release bit.ly/2QxeIAA
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Emperor #penguins could be wiped out by climate change within 80 years, warns a new study by Stephanie Jenouvrier @WHOI.
As the #climate warms, sea ice will gradually disappear – robbing the 🐧s of their habitat, food sources and ability to breed.
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What is holding us back from putting #conservation research into practice?
@MaasBea from @univienna and her co-authors show why interdisciplinary cooperation is crucial for the conservation of global #biodiversity.
phys.org/news/2019-11-biodiv…
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📱How is #SocialMedia helping with #conservation?
Scientists from @HELICS_Lab have figured out how to "mine people's online reactions to #endangered animals and plants, to reduce the chance of pushing species toward #extinction."
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/…
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