New social media challenge: "Let's post #art to help save Earth's 1 million threatened species!"
The #1MillionToMiss campaign invites all artists to post their artwork featuring threatened plants, animals, and/or at-risk habitats
@JenMBallesteros
🎨 1milliontomiss.com/
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"We will only be to turn the tide on plastic #pollution if we change our habits and use our voice to influence change.” - @samdbarratt
The Tide Turners Plastic Challenge provides young people with tools to help #BeatPlasticPollution. 🌊
@UNEP
unenvironment.org/news-and-s…
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"Every breath of air we take, every mouthful of food we eat, depends upon a healthy natural world"
Sir David Attenborough shows why reversing the dangerous decline of #nature is so important—and highlights the potential of #NatureBasedSolutions
@UNDP
UN Development
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In the time of #COVID19, virtual meetings have become our new norm
@IPBES has put together a collection of free #VirtualBackgrounds
Celebrate #biodiversity and make your next video meeting more fun! 🌿🐾
Download your own & share👇
ipbes.net/communications-sta…
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🌍The health of people & #nature are essentially linked🌏
Learn more about #biodiversity & infectious diseases with a Q&A from @UNBiodiversity & @WHO
They answer questions on diseases like #COVID19, links to wildlife & benefits of the #OneHealth approach
cbd.int/health/infectiousdis…
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Good news! @UNBiodiversity is still working to develop an ambitious post-2020 global #biodiversity framework
"#COVID19 has highlighted how critical #biodiversity health & ecosystem stability is for the world"
—CBD Executive Secretary @MremaE
👇
cbd.int/doc/press/2020/pr-20…
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"Keystone species help maintain #biodiversity & there are no other species in the ecosystem that can serve their same function🐺"
—Amy McKeever discusses the controversial keystone species theory w/@NatGeo
What do you think?
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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#COVID19 has drawn attention to #wildlife use, trade and protection
"Rather than stopping use we need systems that support #sustainability"—@dilysroe @IIED iied.org/despite-covid-19-us…
Info on upcoming @IPBES Sustainable Use of Wild #Species Assessment 👉 bit.ly/IPBESSustainbleUses
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"We are losing #biodiversity faster than ever before.
The good news is that it's not too late... but it's going to take transformative changes."
—@StuButchart, @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Coordinating Lead Author
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New study: #extinction accelerating: 500+ vertebrate species 'on the brink,' likely lost in 20 years
In just 100 years avg 94% of populations lost for 77 species
"6th mass extinction not inevitable, but the warning lights are flashing" - @AndyPurvisNHM
theguardian.com/environment/…
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🇩🇰It looks like #hygge is set to expand to include the needs of #nature
"With the rural village as an archetype, we're creating a city where #biodiversity and active recreation define a #sustainable pact between people and nature" —@HLArchitects🌿
dezeen.com/2020/01/13/faelle…
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Divers from @Merpropre describe finding “Covid waste” – dozens of gloves, masks and bottles of hand sanitiser beneath the waves of the #Mediterranean. 🤿
Conservationists warn that #covid19 could spark a surge in ocean pollution
theguardian.com/environment/…
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June 17 is #DesertificationAndDroughtDay!
Join the @UN Convention to Combat Desertification on- & offline as they focus on a crucial aspect of #Desertification & #LandDegradation: #FoodFeedFibre production & consumption
👇Social media pack from @UNCCD👇
trello.com/b/M5QwgJkd/2020-d…
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“Without a mix of long-term cuts in emissions & short-term innovation, there’s a not-so-far-off future where #coralreefs as we know them simply cease to exist” 🐠
-Anne Cohen, Coral Expert, @WHOI
Learn more ⬇️
nationalgeographic.com/scien…
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"This is a challenge that transcends and unites us"
Actor and filmmaker @EdwardNorton spoke to @UNESCOCourier about the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, the value of #biodiversity and his hope that we will #BuildBackBetter
Full interview⬇️
en.unesco.org/courier/news-v…
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“The evidence of the IPBES #GlobalAssessment presents an ominous picture.” - @IPBES former chair, Sir Bob Watson
However, the Report also offered solutions & found areas managed by Indigenous Peoples had far less severe ecological decline.
Learn more👇
euronews.com/living/2020/06/…
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"We must realize we're members of a broad, beautiful & living planet & we must find ways to subsist in this together"
—Joel Berger et al. on the threat of human population growth to wild mammals
w/ @ColoradoStateU @TheWCS
via @physorg_com @FrontEcolEvol
phys.org/news/2020-06-scient…
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🎧Listen to the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment key messages as an audiobook!
Thanks to @AndyPurvisNHM, one Coordinating Lead Author of the Report, who generously offered to lend his voice for #biodiversity
Here on the #IPBES Youtube channel:
youtube.com/rCiqij0dIGM
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🚨Attention🚨: @IPBES #NexusAssessment draft scoping report is now open for external review!
If you have relevant expertise, click here to register for access to review ⬇️
ipbes.net/nexus-scoping-revi…
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Trees alone cannot reverse the dangerous decline of #nature, but the
@IPBES #GlobalAssessment showcased their many invaluable contributions #naturebasedsolutions
🎋Reduce air pollution
🌴Mitigate #ClimateChange
🌲Create green infrastructure
🌳& many more!
BBC Ideas💡
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