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IPBES #PandemicsReport was co-authored by leading experts in the field of: 🔹epidemiology 🔸zoology 🔹public health 🔸disease ecology 🔹comparative pathology 🔸veterinary medicine 🔹pharmacology 🔸wildlife health 🔹mathematical modeling 🔸economics 🔹law 🔸public policy & more
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The farming, trade & consumption of #wildlife & derived products (food, medicine...) has led to #biodiversity loss & emerging diseases like #COVID19@IPBES #PandemicsReport suggests 'reducing species w/ high-risk of disease emergence in wildlife trade' ipbes.net/Pandemics
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Delighted to report The @guardian has won the @FundacionBBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication for its “powerful and effective communication of environmental issues” which has delivered “a transformative impact to a global community” biophilia-fbbva.es/en/notici…
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🌿What is #Nature for you? "Nature embodies different concepts for different people, including #biodiversity, ecosystems, Mother Earth, systems of #life & other analogous concepts" —@IPBES #GlobalAssessment 🎥@Gabriele_Corno
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'We need to shift our approach from reaction to #prevention & massively lower our risk of future #health crises by substantially and rapidly curbing the human activities that drive #biodiversity loss.' —Marco Lambertini, @WWF_DG @IPBES #PandemicsReport 👉ipbes.net/pandemics
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🦠‘Deforestation, expansion of agric., intensive farming, mining, infrastructure dev & exploitation of #wildspecies created a ‘perfect storm’ for spillover of diseases from #wildlife to people‘ —Guest article by #GlobalAssessment co-chairs & @PeterDaszak ipbes.net/covid19stimulus
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40% of all internal conflicts over the last 60 years have been linked to the exploitation of natural resources —@UNEP Today is International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed Conflict w/ @UNDPPA #EnvConflictDay un.org/en/observances/enviro…
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The #COVID19 pandemic stems from our increasingly frayed relationship w/ #nature but we can still change this @IPBES guest article: "COVID-19 Stimulus Measures Must Save Lives, Protect Livelihoods & Safeguard Nature to Reduce Risk of Future Pandemics" 👉 ipbes.net/covid19stimulus
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Human #ecological disruption & unsustainable #consumption drive #pandemic risk: 5+ new diseases emerge in people every year, any one of which has the potential to spread and become pandemic @IPBES #PandemicsReport ipbes.net/pandemics
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⏰Deadline: November 9th 📣@IPBES seeks nominations of experts on models for #biodiversity, #climatechange, food, water, health, energy & transformative change 🕸️For the workshop on modelling #NatureFutures scenarios that will take place on Jan 12-15🌿 bit.ly/NatureFuturesWkshopCa…
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'Ugly' species deserve protection too! 'Conservation conversations tend to focus on certain plants & animals but ignore others We also need to look beyond species w/ obvious commercial interest. We can't let our notion of beauty simplify nature' forbes.com/sites/worldeconom…
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The @IPBES #PandemicsReport showed that our unsustainable relationship w/ nature is making pandemics more frequent, costly & deadly This @ForestPeoplesP report on #COVID19 shows dramatic consequences for the >476 million #Indigenous & forest peoples 🌳forestpeoples.org/en/lands-f…
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🐯📸An image of a clearly ecstatic tigress hugging an ancient Manchurian fir tree in a remote Siberian forest has won one of the world’s most prestigious photography prizes #WPY56 @NHM_WP 📰@markbrown14 via @guardian theguardian.com/environment/…
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How can Govs reduce #pandemic emergence related to wildlife trade? Build new 'health & trade' partnership Reduce/remove high disease-risk species in trade Law enforcement on illegal w/life trade Education in disease 'hotspots' @IPBES #PandemicsReport👉ipbes.net/pandemics
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🦠Current #pandemic preparedness strategies aim to control diseases after they emerge 🔬They rely on #biodiversity & on reductionist approaches to #vaccine & therapeutic development rather than on reducing the drivers of risk @IPBES #PandemicsReport 👉ipbes.net/pandemics
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🦠The @IPBES #PandemicsReport experts estimate the cost of reducing risks to prevent pandemics to be 100 times less than the cost of responding to such pandemics, providing strong economic incentives for #transformative change. @RHarrabin via @BBCNews bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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🌊 Happy World #JellyfishDay! Join @NatGeo in celebrating these invertebrates, which are the oldest multicellular animals on the planet – believed to be up to 700 million years old!
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🐄🏭'The #PandemicsReport speaks of need for #TransformativeChange to reduce “consumption, globalized agric. expansion & trade” This could include modifying previous calls for taxes or levies on #MeatConsumption & livestock production' —@JeffMcMahon_Chi forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon…
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🦠'There are 1.7 million undiscovered #viruses lurking in mammals &birds, half of which may have the ability to infect people. .#Pandemics are growing in number as human activities place more stress on the #environment'🌿 —@Sarah_Gibbens via @NatGeo nationalgeographic.com/envir…
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🌎'The world must tackle the #Biodiversity & #Climate crises to stand a chance of preventing future #Pandemics, That [could include] setting up an international body [...] to minimize risk'📉 — @JournoJane via @Independent @IPBES #PandemicsReport independent.co.uk/news/healt…
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