#DidYouKnow: Virtually everything on your dinner plate🍽️started with or needed a #seed🌱?!
It's true.
Watch this short film📽️ by @planttreaty to see how #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed🌱:
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This Western Parotia is a bird with some moves... 🎶💃
He changes his eye from blue to yellow, puffs his feathers like a skirt and begins to twirl and shake his head plume, all topped off with very fancy footwork
🎥via @naturalworldwo1 @ourplanet
nitter.vloup.ch/naturalworldwo1/…
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Biodiversity is the foundation of life🌿
'It provides us with the air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat, it sequesters carbon, and yields many other benefits – all of which are crucial for human survival.'
—@mremae of @UNBiodiversity for @theGEF
thegef.org/news/we-need-do-b…
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Why should local & subnational governments, their leaders & urban communities take action #ForNature?
🏙️🦋🌳💧🌆
Learn more w/ @ICLEI @ICLEICBC
cbc.iclei.org/understanding-…
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'The window is closing.
Business as usual – using up natural resources faster and faster – can’t carry on. In some cases, we are already using resources faster than they can be replenished.'
@JaneGoodallInst for 📰 @guardian @jonathanwatts
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Interested in joining the @IPBES fellowship program?💭
Applications are open for early-career scientists to contribute to
🔄#NexusAssessment: ipbes.net/applications/nexus…
💡#TransformativeChange assessment: ipbes.net/applications/trans…
Apply by 20 Sept 📅💻
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Wetlands are one of the most critical ecosystems #ForNature and people:
⛈️They help mitigate #ClimateChange
🦆Host 40% of the world's #Biodiversity
💧Provide clean water
@YEWetlands invites us to #RestoreWetlands
ramsar50.org @RamsarConv @martharojasu1
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Correction❌
➡️DDL for early-career researchers: 20 Septemeber
➡️DDL nominating institutions to confirm nominations: 27 Septemeber
More information: ipbes.net/ipbes-fellowship-p…
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Research led by @ISGLOBALorg found that if Barcelona's population were all to drink bottled water, this would result in 3,500 times higher cost of resource extraction than if they all drank tap water💧🇪🇸
@JoeyGrostern @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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"Temperatures are rising more quickly than we thought"
The recent @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport shows temperatures rising more quickly than expected & show the long-term effects of increased CO2 in the air 🌡️⛈️📈
📰via @wef
weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/i…
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Today is #WorldElephantDay!🐘
Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory, and loss of habitat, the @IUCNRedList shows African forest elephants as Critically #Endangered & the African savanna elephant as Endangered
More➡️iucn.org/news/species/202103…
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Today is Intl #YouthDay🧑💻🧑🔬🧕🙋
@IPBES Fellowship applications are now open to early-career scientists to contribute to #NexusAssessment & #TransformativeChange Assessment
📸via @YESS_Network: Fellows participating in #IPBESstakeholder days & #IPBES8
ipbes.net/ipbes-fellowship-p…
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Hi Xavier - yes, "Fellows should be able to make a time commitment of 15 percent of their time over the assessment period, including attending author meetings and training" - more here: ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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#CitiesWithNature are reshaping our future🏙️🌳🐦
Cities and regions are critical to addressing biodiversity loss & reconnecting people with nature🔄
Learn more w/ an animated poster from @ICLEI citieswithnature.org/the-val…
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'The @UN’s scientific body on biodiversity, @IPBES, is working on a major assessment of invasive and alien species around the world, which will be published in 2023' (#InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment)
📰@pgreenfielduk @guardian @UKLadybirds theguardian.com/environment/…
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Scientists are certain that human-caused emissions have dangerously & permanently changed our planet
The last time atmospheric CO2 levels were this high was millions of years ago Thermometer #ClimateCrisis
📖@IPCC_CH #ClimateReport ➡️bit.ly/WGICC2021
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'Hundreds of millions of people obtain key nutrients and livelihoods from small-scale fisheries #SSF, many of which are fully exploited or overexploited'
Learn more about sustainability transformations of Galician SSFs w/ paper from @SebVillasante et al.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Do you know anyone interested in land-based jobs? 💭
Let them know about the upcoming webinar organized by @UNCCD and @DeutscheWelle, feat. @shameekc, @TREEPLANET_MC & more
💻#Land_Jobs4YOUth
📅2 Sept 2021
unccd.int/issuesland-and-you…
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'In the Red' for the cover of @OneEarth_CP journal🎨
Inspired by @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, @sperlingmosaics shows fragments of a ceramic loon encircled by concrete representing the human-caused habitat destruction that threatens species around the world🌎
cell.com/one-earth/home
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Are you working in biodiversity conservation?
🌱🍄🐛🐸🐘🌳🌊
100+Biodiversity Positive Practices and Actions Around the World, co-organized by @ShanCenter welcomes submissions from biodiversity conservationists from all around the🗺️
DDL: 31 Aug 2021
➡️en.shanshui.org/information/…
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