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Join #EarthHour 2021🌍🕰️
Millions of people around the world will switch off their lights on 27 March at 8.30pm local time to highlight the threats of nature loss and the climate crisis facing us today
Let's act together #ForNature 🌿
Do you value the positive powers of water?💙💧
@UN_Water raises awareness about the values of water for our wellbeing, community, religion and more...
Learn more from this #WorldWaterDay video🎥
Smaller than a child’s fingernail, a type of marine mysid crustacean new to science has been found in a humble tank at the @HornimanMuseum in London💧🇬🇧
These species have spent the past ~12 years hiding in plain sight and “breeding like mad"
📰@guardiantheguardian.com/environment/…
Oceans are essential to life and provide major ecosystem services🌊
'In the last decade, 66% of the #ocean area has been experiencing increasing cumulative impacts & only 3% of the ocean is now described as free from human pressure'
—@Anamariamojita#UnescoBiodiversityForum
'We can no longer carry on with business as usual
We can no longer believe in the absurd idea that on a planet with finite natural resources & a growing population of humans & livestock, we can have unlimited economic development'
—@JaneGoodallInst at #UnescoBiodiversityForum
Water is a unique resource💧
The foundation of life, societies & economies, it has so many benefits for people...
But unlike many raw materials, its cost & price ≠ its true value
Learn more about the values of water w/@UNESCO@UN_Water
The frequency & intensity of extreme #weather events have increased due to #ClimateChange
These changes impact many aspects of #biodiversity, including:
🐟species distribution
🐠phenology
🦑population dynamics
🐬community structure
🌱ecosystem function
—@IPBES#GlobalAssessment
On #WorldWaterDay, learn more about the values of water to different groups💧
"These understandings of the environment, from people who’ve managed it from the beginning of time, need to be incorporated alongside sciences”
—@sustainabillyt
🎧#ipbespod👇
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