For many people living in the remote Rufiji Delta in northern #Tanzania, life revolves around one thing: #mangroves
A new project aims to protect this rare ecosystem & encouraging sustainable management | @GEF
Story via @UNEP | #MangroveDay
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🦐Today is #MangroveDay🐢
#Mangroves can protect us from the impacts of #climatechange:
"Most of nature’s contributions are not fully replaceable
People have created substitutes for some, but many of them are imperfect or financially prohibitive"
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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🦐🐢Happy #MangroveDay! 🐟🐊
🌊#DYK that mangrove forests and seagrass beds sequester more carbon than tropical rainforests?
Learn more about the importance of #mangrove ecosystems👇
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Want to know more about creating a sustainable future?
Hear Prof. @KaiChanUBC explain #TransformativeChange and the ways to create #systemchange on the latest episode of the @IPBES #podcast: link.chtbl.com/cNKLPxsi
Distilling and discussing the @IPBES levers & leverage points for #TransformativeChange
*If we’re going to re-orient societal efforts towards REAL change and #sustainability we must have agreement on how, and that it’s needed.*
A collection of resources:
chanslabviews.blogspot.com/2…
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📖 Researchers are studying the genome of #bats to learn how they carry coronaviruses without getting sick 🦇 @bat1kgenomes
"If we could mimic the immune response of bats to viruses ... then you could look to nature to find a cure"
–@EmmaTeeling1
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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🐌 “For their striking aspect, these snails are considered the most beautiful on the planet” -@brunodphoto
Spectacularly colored shells make critically endangered Cuban snails highly sought after.
Learn about the people working to save them 🐌 @CITES
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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Celebrate #biodiversity and make your next video meeting more fun! 🌿🐾
With virtual meetings becoming the new norm, @IPBES has put together new free #VirtualBackgrounds
Download your own & share👇
ipbes.net/communications-sta…
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Need more insect adventures?
New study in @SciRobotics: @UW researchers developed a 250 milligram wireless steerable camera that can ride on an #insect for a new perspective on #biodiversity
'No #beetles were harmed'
bbc.com/news/technology-5344…
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90% of this🐢species in 🇦🇺 have been lost since 2015 from a new disease
“I don’t know of any similar wildlife mortality like this”
“It’s a bit of a mystery... We know it’s a reptile type of virus but have no idea where it came from"
Bruce Chessman @UNSW
therevelator.org/bellinger-r…
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"invasive alien species are defined as animals, plants or other organisms introduced directly or indirectly by people into places out of their natural range of distribution, where they have become established and dispersed, generating an impact on local ecosystems & species" 2/2
Hello Barbara, please excuse the two part answer, as the definition is lengthy. The answer to this question and additional info on the scope of the #InvasiveAlienSpecies assessment can be found here: ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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🌍 #InvasiveSpecies are a top 5 driver of global #biodiversity loss
For example, 1 invasive pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, threatens nearly 400 amphibian species🐸
@IPBES assessment of #InvasiveAlienSpecies & their control currently underway👇
ipbes.net/news/ipbes-announc…
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New study in @ScienceMagazine suggests: "The cost of preventing further pandemics over the next decade by protecting wildlife and forests would equate to just 2% of the estimated financial damage caused by #Covid19"
theguardian.com/world/2020/j…
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An “edible forest” means planting trees & crops that can produce food in the forest, as well as harvesting what naturally grows
Jagannath Adhikari, @UNSW, discusses a possible solution to #deforestion without compromising #foodsecurity
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theconversation.com/profiles…
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A glimmer of hope in the struggle to save the critically endangered #vaquita, the world's rarest marine mammal🌊
A new report by @iwc_int says that #vaquita conservation is possible if “there is a rigorous, concerted enforcement effort”
Story via @UNEP👇
unenvironment.org/news-and-s…
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New research points to a compelling possibility: a 4,000km range of corals along the Red Sea reef may be uniquely resistant to #ClimateChange
"This is the only coral reef ecosystem that has a chance to withstand 2 to 3 degrees of extra heat" @AndersMeibom
theguardian.com/science/2020…
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Did you know that @IPBES is on #Instagram? 📷
We collect and share @IPBES and #biodiversity-related information and #photography from around the world.
👉 Follow our page for #nature news & #photos:
instagram.com/ipbes_/
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New study: “very little chance that polar bears would persist anywhere in the world, except perhaps in the very high #Arctic in one small subpopulation” if greenhouse-gas emissions continue at business-as-usual levels. –lead author Dr. Péter Molnár @UofT
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Last chance: 31 July! Submit review comments for the @IPBES #NexusAssessment draft scoping report now
This is the opportunity for members, observers & stakeholders to inform the scope of the report on health, food, water, #biodiversity & #ClimateChange
❗ipbes.net/nexus-scoping-revi…
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Indeed, you can find more info on the landing page here: ipbes.net/podcast
And direct links to the user's preferred listening platform via: link.chtbl.com/cNKLPxsi
Many thanks for your support and happy listening.
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