🦇As the sun sets over a remote part of #Zambia, the sky suddenly fills with the sound of fluttering wings and then turns black
The near-threatened fruit #bats, crucial for restoring #forests in #Africa, are in danger
📰via @AJEnglish
aljazeera.com/features/2020/…
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🌱"#Ecosystems are collapsing
🌊Our life-support systems are being destroyed"
—@vanessa_vash, #climate activist
📖 There are solutions in #Nature like "large-scale landscape restoration & reforestation", according to new @UNEP #EmissionsGap Report
UN Environment Programme
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💡📖#DidYouKnow the #ParisAgreement on #ClimateChange was reached almost 5 years ago?
But what is it – and how does it work?
Check out this short explainer video from @UNFCCC👇
UN Climate Change
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📖The full laid-out version of the @IPBES #PandemicsReport is now available
Download one of the most scientifically robust examinations of the evidence and knowledge about links between pandemic risk and nature loss since the #COVID19 pandemic began.
👉ipbes.net/pandemics
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Mountain ecosystems are threatened by:
🚜Expansion of agriculture & settlements upslope
🌳Logging for timber & fuel
⛰️Replacement of alpine systems by highland pastures
🌱#InvasiveSpecies
💦#ClimateChange
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
#InternationalMountainDay
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🌊'For the #oceans, #NaturesContributions to people are declining rapidly
To ensure sustainable provision of essential marine benefits, we need to get active and protect #MarineBiodiversity now.'
@utejacobjj @HIFMB_OL
New @PNASnews article on #NCPs👉pnas.org/content/early/2020/…
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🐙 A diver in #Hawaii caught a glimpse of this #octopus using its incredible camouflage abilities to avoid predators and other threats
#Biodiversity | via @NatGeo
National Geographic
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📖'A number of existing & proposed post-2020 #biodiversity targets are at risk of being severely compromised due to #ClimateChange'
—New study led by Prof. Almut Arneth @KITKarlsruhe
👉📚pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pna…
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🕬 #IPBESStakeholders Spotlight #3: Günter Mitlacher @WWF
'As #WWF we need this kind of scientific backing [from @IPBES assessments] for our advocacy, for driving the restoration of #nature, avoiding the threats of nature & other important issues'
📺👉bit.ly/StakeholderSpotlight3
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⛰️#Mountains are home to 15% of the world´s population & host about half of the world's #biodiversity hotspots
🌿On December 11, join @FAO in celebrating #InternationalMountainDay, under the 2020 theme: Biodiversity 🦅
Learn more and find events ➡️ un.org/en/observances/mounta…
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'We need to talk about 'normal'
Normal places our future in doubt by damaging the health of species, societies, economies & the planet
We can't go back
We must go forward & build low-carbon, nature-positive economies & societies'
–@Andersen_Inger @UNEP
telegraph.co.uk/business/how…
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📖'This assessment spans a wide range of #NaturesContributions, from #food production to protection from #NaturalHazards to nature’s critical role in defining our sense of place'
@PNASNews article on #NCPs building on the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment👉pnas.org/content/early/2020/…
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📖It's a wrap for the 2nd author meeting of the @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies assessment
Congratulations to the assessment co-chairs @UKLadybirds @AnibalPauchard @pstoett and 70+ contributing experts
Learn more👉ipbes.net/invasive-alien-spe…
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🌳🌲Forests play an important role when it comes to looking after our natural world
The State of the #World’s Forests 2020 Report says that both forest #degradation and #deforestation “continue to take place at alarming rates”
📰@AnmarFrangoul via @CNBCi
cnbc.com/2020/11/20/forests-…
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📖Full laid-out version of the @IPBES #PandemicsReport is out now!
Learn about👇
🦠#Pandemics emergence & prevention
😷The role of land-use change, wildlife trade & climate change in driving pandemics
⚕️Pandemic prevention based on #OneHealth approach
👉ipbes.net/pandemics
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🐙🐟🇦🇺 'The health of #Australia’s #GreatBarrierReef, the world’s most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem, is in a critical state and deteriorating as #ClimateChange warms up the waters in which it lies'
🔎@IUCN 📰@reuters
reuters.com/article/us-clima…
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🇹🇷A new #biodiversity map of #Turkey has been created
The mapping identified 13,409 plant and animal species🦎🌺
Species-population & habitat-ecosystem monitoring studies were carried out in 81 provinces incl. 292 flora, 218 fauna & 263 specialized areas
aa.com.tr/en/science-technol…
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One of #nature's many contributions to human well-being is natural beauty - like the amazing lights of the #Auroraborealis
These dancing lights are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the ☀️ that enter the earth's atmosphere
Aurora Borealis Observatory
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Soil fertility loss is caused by three main processes:
🚜#soil acidification
☀️salinization
💦waterlogging"
— @IPBES #LandDegradation Assessment⬇️
ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
Learn what you can do to stop soil #pollution w/@FAO
#WorldSoilDay
Food and Agriculture Organization
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