🚤A team of researchers has found about 40 new #species of fish in Lake Mweru, #Africa
This #biodiversity discovery also contributes to the understanding of hybridization, as most of the species are the product of interspecies breeding🐟
medicalnewstoday.com/article…
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Protecting and restoring #Nature isn't just a moral issue:
Nature underpins our societies and economies
It is our greatest ally in combating the #climate crisis
—@manupulgarvidal on 🆕@WWF publication based on @IPBES #GlobalAssessment & @IPCC_CH reports
wwf.panda.org/?356971/Saving…
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Protecting, restoring and managing ecosystems and biodiversity is a sustainable way to improve resilience against #ClimateChange
@WWF Report Climate, Nature and our 1.5°C Future draws evidence from @IPBES #GlobalAssessment and 3 @IPCC_CH Reports
LIVE:facebook.com/wwfclimateenerg…
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The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment showed worldwide erosion of #biodiversity, caused primarily by changes in how land and sea are used, direct exploitation of natural resources, and with #ClimateChange as the 3rd most important driver of #BiodiversityLoss
—@EU_Commission #EUGreenDeal
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"I want you to listen to the scientists,
and I want you to #UniteBehindTheScience,
And then I want you to #TakeAction."
Congratulations to @GretaThunberg @Fridays4future on being named @TIME’s Person of the Year!
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BREAKING: #WorldEnvironmentDay 2020 will focus on #Biodiversity and will be hosted in Colombia🇨🇴 in partnership with Germany🇩🇪
"With 1 million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to focus on the issue of biodiversity."
unenvironment.org/news-and-s…
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⛰️Mountains have cultural significance for many #indigenous & #local cultures —@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
Home to 15% of the world's population & a 1/4 of land animals & plants, their conservation is crucial.
#InternationalMountainDay #MountainsMatter
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"Loss of #biodiversity, just like human-induced #ClimateChange is not only an environmental issue, but an economic, development, social, security, moral and ethical issue." –Sir Robert Watson, Past @IPBES Chair.
#GlobalAssessment #EUGreenDeal #TimeForAction #Biodiversity2020
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While there is more food produced than ever before, this is increasingly at the expense of other #NaturesContributions & ability to provide them in future
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
#Biodiversity is essential for #sustainable food production and achieving #ZeroHunger🥑
#SDG2
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Forests of #SoutheastAsia are facing severe pressures
"Economics & national development tends to overcome any inclination to conserve #biodiversity for the sake of biodiversity alone" —Serina Abdul Rahman @ISEAS
What causes deforestation? How to halt it?
theaseanpost.com/article/sou…
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Hi Mark - @pgISYEB also kindly pointed this out to us - we stand corrected and will avoid the term in future
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Some📷from last week's @IPBES Eastern European stakeholder workshop in Baku 🇦🇿, where among other topics, experts discussed the importance of recognizing #indigenous and local practices for halting #LandDegradation, promoting #biodiversity & #sustainable land management
@UNCCD
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"If the #ecosystem is like a car, then every animal & plant species acts as a part of that car. Lack of any species can threaten the safety when the vehicle operates"
Read about #Vietnam,🌏's 16th most biodiverse country, nature declining
vietnamnews.vn/environment/5…
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🎥:A "living #fossil"!
The chambered nautilus has been around longer than TREES 🌳🌴🌳, but this species is on the brink of #extinction because of the shell trade.
via: @oceana
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If humanity wants to reverse the widespread destruction of the natural world, #biodiversity needs legal protection like the Paris agreement on #ClimateChange, members of the EU parliament @EP_Environment have said, citing @IPBES #GlobalAssessment.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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"The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment gave a stark warning: increasingly we are recognising that #BiodiversityLoss & the #climate emergency are intimately bound together
Nature plays a fundamental role in regulating our climate & climate is key in shaping nature"
heraldscotland.com/opinion/1…
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#ClimateChange is already having an impact on #biodiversity, from genes to #ecosystems
🌿At the same time, #NatureBasedSolutions can provide >33% of mitigation needed to meet 2°C goals by 2030
It’s time to #ActForNature!
#COP25 #Biodiversity2020
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📷 #DidYouKnow that #IPBES is on #Instagram?
We collect and share #pictures and facts about #biodiversity and #ecosystemservices from around the world
👇Follow us and for some #nature inspiration: instagram.com/ipbes_/
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Chair of @IPBES @Anamariamojita reflects on her "22-hour job", how her upbringing prepared her for this role as well as on the importance of scientific evidence for #biodiversity integrating different knowledge systems.
elespectador.com/noticias/me…
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