🌎🌿In the #Americas, #indigenous ppls have created biodiversity-based systems that provide livelihoods, food, health, increase biodiversity & shape landscapes
Many peoples live in forests and primarily depend on them for livelihoods🌳🌴
#ForestsPeoplePlanet #WorldWildlifeDay
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Good news from #Australia 🇦🇺 !
Koalas🐨 are having a successful breeding season at the Australian Reptile Park
The devastating bushfires that began at the end of 2019 threatened much of their population
via @nowthisnews
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The knowledge and innovations of indigenous peoples enhance the conservation, restoration & sustainable use of nature🌿
@GlobalLF highlights 6 #indigenous innovations that are changing landscapes around the world🌎🌍🌏
#ThinkLandscape #ForNature
Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)
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The United Nations Environment Programme @UNEP was established after the first @UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden 5–16 June 1972 🇸🇪
In 2022, @UNEP will celebrate 50 years of working #ForNature🌿
#UNEP50
UN Environment Programme
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Forests are vital ecosystems that provide material and non-material contributions to people💡✨
🌳#DYK that @IPBES #RegionalAssessment for Europe & Central Asia found wood supply from forests in the region generates profits of $255 per hectare per year?
#WWD2021
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🍄@IPBES assessment of the #SustainableUse of wild #species🌿🍏
✍️The 2nd external review of the chapters & the 1st external review of the summary for policymakers will be open from 15 April to 10 June
➡️ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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In our globalized🌎, distant connections are often invisible
1 example is increasing meat consumption🐄& soy production driving deforestation
Production & trade to satisfy demand is driving #LandDegradation, now affecting >3 billion people
More info:
ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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In nature, everything is interconnected: food, fresh water, temperature & ocean 🔄
'If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security'🥀
—Sir David Attenborough at the @UN Security Council
United Nations
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Newly described species found in #Madagascar🇲🇬
Hidden beneath the leaf litter of a northern Malagasy forest & measuring just under 30 millimeters from snout to tail, Brookesia nana, may be the smallest #reptile on Earth🦎
@ScienceNews
sciencenews.org/article/new-…
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'While experts tabulate the economic losses—homes destroyed🏡 crops ruined🌽& businesses shuttered💼—ecosystems and wildlife can also sustain damage [from extreme weather events] that's harder to quantify'🍃🥀
Read the full story via @TaraLohan @EcoWatch
ecowatch.com/extreme-weather…
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🔍Register as a reviewer and join the webinar on the second external review of the @IPBES #ValuesAssessment🌿
🌱Sign up to become a reviewer: ipbes.net/registration/value…
🌱Join the webinar 📅1 March, 2pm CET ipbes.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Forests play a central role in sustaining livelihoods💚
🔍@IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that areas managed by #indigenous peoples face growing pressure from resource extraction, incl. #deforestation, w/ various consequences for local #livelihoods & health
#WorldWildlifeDay
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A new report on #ForgottenFishes led by @WWF outlines options for an emergency recovery plan for freshwater #biodiversity🐟
👉
europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/wwf…
The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that freshwater species have declined by 84% since the 1970s🐠
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🍋🍓2021 is Intl #VegFruitYear🍌🍐
Learn about 3 tree species that feed millions of people across #Africa
🌳Desert date
🌿Indian jujube
🌴African fan palm
via @wef #IYFV2021
World Economic Forum
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A rare #Amazonian cactus🌵 called the #moonflower has bloomed for what botanists believe is the first time in the UK🇬🇧
Watch the timelapse of this rare flower blooming for one night only✨
via @CUBotanicGarden @guardian @mollyblackall
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Forests sustain the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally
🌎🌳🌍🌲🌏🌴
This #WorldWildlifeDay, let's celebrate
Forests
Forest species
& forest-based livelihoods
wildlifeday.org #ForNature #ForestsPeoplePlanet
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✨#HappeningNow
Authors meeting to craft the summary for policymakers #SPM of @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment
Goals👇
💡Develop the narrative & finalize the annotated outline
💡Coordinate work to develop the 1st order draft
#PolicyRelevance
ipbes.net/events/first-meeti…
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“This is a leucistic penguin” 🐧🟡
“Its cells don’t create melanin anymore so its black feathers become this yellow and creamy color”
via @petapixel
petapixel.com/2021/02/18/wil…
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💡#DYK that the extent of tropical & subtropical forests is📈within some countries, as well as the global extent of temperate & boreal forests is📈
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
#WorldWildlifeDay #ForestsPeoplePlanet
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'There is no denying the urgency of the challenge. As the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment warned, an estimated one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction.' 📈
See this op-ed by @mremae of @UNBiodiversity & @manupulgarvidal of @climateWWF
news.trust.org/item/20210218…
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