🌿 "Making peace with #nature is the defining task of the 21st century
🕊️ It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere."
—@antonioguterres, @UN Secretary-General in his #StateofthePlanet speech
via @UN_News_Centre
news.un.org/en/story/2020/12…
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Happy #WorldSoilDay!
🪱 ⏱️#DYK that soil organisms work 24/7/365 in a coordinated effort that helps sustain life on Earth?
📚Learn more fao.org/world-soil-day
#SoilBiodiversity
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🇮🇳🚮As #India struggles to clean up the #Ganges river, researchers hope that their ‘message in a bottle’ approach will help shed light on the impact of #PlasticPollution on the 2,700 km long water body.
📰@pabsgill @BIIndia
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🌱🪲 Soil isn't static. It's a living dynamic ecosystem— constantly gaining & losing carbon.
@nature_org has launched a platform showing how #soil has changed over time, and how we can harness its potential👉nature.ly/3loOr2U
#GrowPositive
The Nature Conservancy
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Meet Duobrachium sparksae – a strange, gelatinous #species of ctenophore, encountered by the remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer during a #dive off the coast of #PuertoRico 🇵🇷 🌊
🔎@NOAA @NOAAFisheries via 📰@ScienceAlert
sciencealert.com/bizarre-jel…
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🏹'Our focus should be on well-being & welfare, but our economic system puts all focus on growth & GDP which adds fuel to the climate & #biodiversity crises' @AndersWijkman @EASACnews @cision
We need to enable #TransformativeChange towards #sustainability
news.cision.com/communicatio…
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All people and many species depend on the #biodiversity of #forests🙌🌳
Forests are a 🏠 to:
🐸80% of amphibian species
🐦75% of bird species
🦌68% of mammal species
📚@FAO State of the World's Forests Report 2020 & @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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🐯Happy #IntlCheetahDay!
Join us in celebrating the world's fastest land animal!
Historically #cheetahs were found throughout #Africa and #Asia, from #SouthAfrica to #India
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✍🏽Do you have a #biodiversity story to share?
🌿@earthjournalism offers reporting grants to support the production of in-depth #conservation stories to raise global awareness to new threats & solutions w/@ArcadiaFund
⏰Application deadline: 18 Dec. 2020
earthjournalism.net/opportun…
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🦠'So what does @IPBES suggest we do to escape the so-called Pandemic Era?
Nothing less than #TransformativeChange will do, but we & our planet are worth it'
@WBD_UK @WBD_US law firm highlights policy options from the #PandemicsReport | #LawMeetsScience
medium.com/law-meets-science…
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'We need a greater commitment to #biodiversity
This means:
💚More & bigger, effectively managed #conservation areas
🚜Biodiversity-positive agriculture & fisheries
🛑Phasing out negative subsidies
🔄Shift from unsustainable extractive resource mining'
➡️@antonioguterres, @UN SG
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💚💧🫁 Nature sustains the quality of the air, fresh water and #soils on which humanity depends
- @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
Join us in celebrating #WorldSoilDay on 5 Dec!
🐞🐛🪲
UN Land and Drought
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🇳🇿 'This is a declaration based on science'
— said @jacindaardern, Prime Minister of #NewZealand
The motion acknowledged the 'alarming trend in species decline and global #biodiversity' including the decline in NZ’s #Indigenous biodiversity
theguardian.com/world/2020/d…
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🐯🔴The @IUCNRedList classifies the cheetah’s current population trend as declining, with ~7K cheetahs in the wild
A decline of more than 90% since the turn of the 20th century!
📅Tomorrow is #IntlCheetahDay #SaveTheCheetah
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📉🌐'The world has not met any of the global #biodiversity targets set for 2020
We need more ambition & greater commitment to deliver on measurable targets and means of implementation, particularly #finance and #monitoring mechanisms.'
—@antonioguterres, @UN Secretary-General
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🦠'Encroachment of humans & livestock into biodiverse habitats provide new pathways for pathogens to spill over and increase transmission rates.'
—@IPBES #PandemicsReport
Listen to @antonioguterres, @UN Secretary-General's #StateofthePlanet speech👉webtv.un.org
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📖The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment found ~1 million #species of plants & animals face extinction, many within decades unless #biodiversity loss is reduced.
The @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres highlighted this message in his #StateofthePlanet speech at @Columbia
🌏🌍🌎
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⭐️🌊This is a feather star: an ancient species of marine invertebrate
Some species are more mobile when seeking food, but most spend their time perched on surfaces. When they do swim, they alternate arms up and down 🙂🙃
National Geographic
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Hear from @calhi415 @IPBES #PandemicsReport Expert at the 3rd virtual global @WHO Infodemic Management Conference
📅Live Public Session: 11 December, 8AM EST/2PM CET
#societyVSinfodemic
who.int/news-room/events/det…
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🙅🌎Human activity endangers #coral health
🌊A new #algal threat is taking advantage of coral’s already precarious situation in the #Caribbean & making it harder for reef #ecosystems to grow
✍️@UniofOxford @csunorthridge @carnegiescience @nresearchnews
carnegiescience.edu/news/car…
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