🇰🇪🦒 Marooned giraffes, fleeing flamingoes and stranded impalas: in recent years the rising #water levels in East #Africa’s Rift Valley lakes have become the norm
✍️@peter_muiruri via @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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"Too often when we talk about #biodiversity, it evokes a notion of forest destruction or species extinction. Little do we realize, however, that in fact, biodiversity is the foundation for #humanhealth."
—@IPBES Founding Chairman @ZakriZAH
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Planting urban forests can boost #biodiversity & fight #climatechange 🏙️🌆
Learn more from @wef about why the planting of miniature urban forests is growing in popularity.
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🦋🌿#NaturesContributions to people are invaluable.
Protecting these precious gifts will be the defining challenge of decades to come.
The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment measures progress against #GlobalGoals such as the #ParisAgreement, #Aichi #biodiversity targets and @UN #SDGs.
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If we want to halt #biodiversity loss and stop #climatechange, we need #NatureBasedSolutions.
🌳🌴#Reforestation would be a key solution.🌲🌳
Here are some phenomenal examples of how countries around the 🌍 are planting trees to protect our #environment.
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❄️A true winter spectacle!❄️
✨Watch this starling murmuration arrive from all directions and take on incredible shapes, contracting & expanding in the sky
📷Richard Sykes, @YWTPottericCarr HT: @WildlifeTrusts
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#CleanCooking benefits people and the planet
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@UNDP shows that clean cooking means less #deforestation and reduced emissions—in other words, it can help us combat #biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange
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🌊 Happy #FestiveSeason!
🦎 节日快乐！
🐭¡Felices fiestas!
🐦 Счастливый праздничный сезон!
🐾 Joyeuse fêtes de fin d’année!
نتمنى لكم موسم أعياد سعيد. 🌺
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🍫 Chocolate depends on #biodiversity 🦋
🌴 There are 10+ domesticated indigenous varieties of cocoa, many of them managed by #Indigenous People & Local Communities in the #Amazon
— @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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🇬🇧🐦'The willow tit has become #Britain’s fastest declining resident #bird
Numbers of the diminutive tit, a subspecies unique to the UK, have plummeted by 94% since 1970'
✍️@patrick_barkham via @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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🌍💚In December, we highlight #SDG13 – #ClimateAction – as we marked the fifth anniversary of the landmark #ParisAgreement for Climate Change, and an end to an unprecedented year with an ambition to recover better, stronger and healthier.
Learn more👉 un.org/sustainabledevelopmen…
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🐢Marine #turtles are threatened with #extinction due to human activities
🌊Learn what threats they face & how 13 countries joined forces w/@MavaFdn, @MEDASSET, @SPARACinfos, @UNEP, @MedPAN & others for a #conservation project in the Mediterranean region
youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
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The Summary for Policymakers of the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment on #biodiversity and #ecosystems services is available in 8 languages🎉
🌎📖Find it in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Japanese, Spanish and Russian 👇
ipbes.net/global-assessment
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'We study #bats as bats are suspected to be hosts for several pathogens incl. Ebola #virus
We monitor viruses in these animal populations'
—G. Maganga of the Int' Medical Research Centre of #Franceville, #Gabon on interspecies transmission
🎥@africanews
africanews.com/2020/12/17/mi…
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As 2020 draws to a close, we would like to thank our whole @Twitter community for engaging with us and supporting our work for the past 12 months💚
Thank you for joining @IPBES on our journey to communicate science on #biodiversity and #EcosystemServices 🌿
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🤝 Did you take part in the external review of the scoping reports for the @IPBES #TransformativeChange & the #Nexus assessments earlier this year?
🌿 Thank you!
📖 We received about 5000 comments! The scoping reports were revised & will be considered at #IPBES8
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🦋What is #biodiversity?
🧐What benefits & threats do ppl derive?
'All of the different individual species interact with one another and contribute to natural systems.' 🌻🐞🐷
✍️via @YaleSustain & @SchmitzLab
sustainability.yale.edu/expl…
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🌍📚@IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that one million species of plants and animals now face extinction
🌿Special @OnePlanetSummit on #biodiversity is scheduled for 11 Jan 2021, 2 PM CET
Register & learn more 👉
oneplanetsummit2021.site.cal…
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👁️ Our eyes have 3 types of color-sensitive receptors or cones: 🔵🟢🔴
🐦 But birds have 4 color cones!
💭 Can you imagine how vibrant the world looks to a #bird?
📖@VirginiaMorell & @NatGeo on a @PNASNews study by M. Stoddard
api.nationalgeographic.com/d…
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"The five direct drivers of #biodiversity loss result from an array of underlying causes – the indirect drivers of change – which are in turn underpinned by societal values and behaviors"
📖From the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment ipbes.net/global-assessment
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