Today is #WorldWaterDay💧🌊
Water means different things to each of us - to our home & family life, livelihood, culture, wellbeing and of course our local environment...
What does water mean to you? Share with us in the💬
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Want to know more about wildlife corridors?🦌🐑
Learn about 5 places around the world creating these #wildlife connectivity areas 🐯🐸🐰🐍🐢
Video via @wef🎥
World Economic Forum
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Merging lanes can be challenging...but some have it down to an art!
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Watch these ducks navigate a smooth passage between ice sheets❄️
🎥@SatisfyinVideos
Nature & Animals
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Meet the glasswing butterfly🦋
You can recognize them by their transparent wings that provide camouflage without colouration ✨
Do you know of any other 'transparent' species?
🎥@wonderofscience
Wonder of Science
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🌊🦑 Some days you just get tired of blending in!
This bigfin reef #squid tries out a range of colorful shades on the Great Barrier #Reef
Which color would you pick up? 💙🤎💗
🎥 @ProjectZero Jacinta Shackleton
Project Zero
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🌿How much happiness do you get from #Nature?
🌺The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment also highlighted how #Nature contributes to the non-material aspects of our quality of life
📅March 20 is #InternationalDayofHappiness: un.org/en/observances/happin…
#ForNature
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📢Save the date📢
The @UNBiodiversity Conference (CBD #COP15) will be held 11-24 October 2021 in Kunming, China🇨🇳
Learn more 👉cbd.int/doc/notifications/20…
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21 March is the #IntlForestDay 🌳🌲
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 & @IPBES
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BBC Earth
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Si nous ne nous attaquons pas au déclin de la #biodiversité, les #pandémies seront + fréquentes, + coûteuses et + mortelles que la #COVID19
Le rapport d'@IPBESfr #PandemicsReport propose des options politiques
➡️ bit.ly/CommuniquéPandémies
IPBES en français
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🐟Qu'est-ce que la #biodiversité ?
🐦Pourquoi avons-nous besoin de plantes & d'animaux divers ?
🌿Que pouvons-nous faire #PourLaNature ?
🔬Des milliers de scientifiques travaillent avec @IPBESfr pour y répondre
➡️Suivez @IPBESfr pour en savoir +
IPBES en français
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Toutes les évaluations d'@IPBESfr ont un résumé en français📚
💻Pour y accéder, cliquez sur l'évaluation de votre choix ("assessment" en anglais): ipbes.net/assessing-knowledg…
⬇️Faire défiler vers le bas
💬Cliquer sur "Summary for policymakers" puis sur "FR"
IPBES en français
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Le 20 mars est la #Journéedelalanguefrançaise🎉
20 March is #FrenchLanguageDay🎉
🐦To celebrate, follow our @IPBESfr Twitter & Facebook accounts in French, & learn about #biodiversity through videos, infographics & reports
More on the day➡️un.org/fr/observances/french…
Thread⬇️
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Important Update: new CBD #COP15 dates confirmed from 11-24 October in Kunming, China #ForNature
📢Update: CBD has announced new dates for key meetings to develop the #post2020 biodiversity framework.
📌#COP15 will be held from 11 to 24 October 2021, in Kunming, #China.
📌Further info to come on plans for SBSTTA 24, SBI 3 and WG2020 3.
More info: cbd.int/doc/press/2021/pr-20…
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🦁#Africa is home to an extraordinary diversity of animals and plants
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This biodiversity is key to sustainable development & to addressing #ClimateChange🌊
Let's act together #ForNature🌺
Follow @IPBES to learn more⬇️
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🐟@IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that freshwater species have declined by 84% since the 1970s🐠
22 March is #WorldWaterDay
👉 worldwaterday.org
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'We are aware that the IPBES Assessments are increasingly having an impact on the global dialogue about #biodiversity' 💬
—Anne Larigauderie, IPBES Exec. Sec.
📖IPBES #RegionalAssessment for #Africa and other @IPBES Assessments strengthen the #SciencePolicy interface🌿
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Happening now⏲️
A pilot online dialogue to promote the use of findings of @IPBES Assessments in policymaking in Africa🌍🌿
feat. Anne Larigauderie, Luthando Dziba, @EmmaArchervG & @ScholesBob
Learn about policy options from the #RegionalAssessment ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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📣 Registration for #IPBES8 plenary session, regional consultations & #IPBESStakeholders days now open💻
🌎7-11 June: Regional consultations
🌍3-9 June: Stakeholder Days
🌏14-24 June: #IPBES8 Plenary Session
Find out more & register by 17 May⬇️
ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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💧#DYK that less than 1% of Earth’s #freshwater is usable and most of that is contained in #wetlands, including about a third in rivers and lakes?
Ahead of #WorldWaterDay on March 22, learn more on the links btw water & wetlands w/@RamsarConv⬇️ramsar50.org/wp-content/uplo…
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