Poaching and illegal trafficking of animals, plants and derived products impose negative impacts on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people.🦏🐘
—@IPBES #RegionalAssessment for #Africa.
🎥@UNDP
UN Development
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Marine reptiles face multiple threats. 🐠🐙🐳🌿
These threats include bycatch, pollution, habitat loss, and ship disturbances, according to #SecondWorldOceanAssessment
Learn more about the @UN #RegularProcess👉un.org/regularprocess
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Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous & widespread disruptions in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world.
🔎Explore #ClimateReport @IPCC_CH report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/
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Join @IPBES Communications Team! 📸
We are looking for a Public Information Assistant (G6) to be based in the #IPBES Secretariat office in Bonn 🇩🇪
Deadline for applications: 16 March 2022 📅
careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail…
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Episode 5 of #NatureInsight Season 2 is out now!💥
Ahead of the publication of the @IPBES #ValuesAssessment in July 2022, we explore the multiple values of nature and why they are so important w/@BalvaneraPatty & David Cooper @UNBiodiversity
🎧👉 link.chtbl.com/NatureInsight…
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Polar bears are well suited to their chilly homes that mostly lie within the Arctic Circle🥶❄️
Watch this video from 🎥@NHM_London explaining some of the amazing adaptations that help them stay warm 🐻❄️👇
Natural History Museum
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"A draft resolution stated that the #plastic treaty would be both legally binding & address the "full lifecycle of plastic", which could cover production & packaging design, as well as waste," reports @Reuters from #UNEA5 in 🇰🇪
✍️@geddiejdk @JoeReuters
reuters.com/business/environ…
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What are the multiple values of nature? Why should we bother trying to understand them? 💭🌿
Ep. 5 of #NatureInsight “Apples, Oranges and Dinosaurs”: The Values of Nature feat. @BalvaneraPatty & David Cooper of @UNBiodiversity premieres Wed, 9 March
🎧👉 link.chtbl.com/NatureInsight…
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Women and girls are powerful agents of change #ForNature 🌿
#InternationalWomensDay 2022 spotlights #GenderEquality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction👩🧕👩🔬👩💻👩💼
Learn more un.org/en/observances/womens… #IWD
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Women and girls play key roles for sustainability and biodiversity🌳
🧕👩 👩🚀 👩🏽🎓👩🏽🔬 👧🏿👩🏻🌾
This #InternationalWomensDay (and every day!) let's celebrate women leaders #ForNature 🌿
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"Indonesia's peatlands 🇮🇩, California's forests 🇺🇸, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine 🇦🇷 wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it."
📰🔥@GloriaDickie @Reuters
reuters.com/business/cop/ext…
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What are the risks posed by rising temperatures? Does every fraction of a degree matter?🌡️ 📈
Learn more from this infographic by @WorldResources based on the latest #IPCC #ClimateReport.
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Fishing, litter, climate change, and seabed mining are threats to seamounts, according to the #SecondWorldOceanAssessment
The good news: initiatives to protect seamounts are expanding🐢🐙🐠🐳
Learn more about the @UN #RegularProcess
👉un.org/regularprocess
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COMING UP💥
Webinar on the Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Scenarios-based Model Intercomparison (BES-SIM) organized by @IPBES task force on scenarios & models, w/the support of the capacity-building task force.
📅8 April 2022⏰1pm CEST
Registrations👉zoom.us/meeting/register/tJU…
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Women and girls play key roles #ForNature🌱
This #InternationalWomensDay, @UN_Women invites us to celebrate the contribution of women and girls who are leading the charge on climate change🔥⛈️🌡️
Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow! #IWD2022
UN Women
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Global land-surface temperature anomalies since 1880, presented in 40 seconds 🌡️📈
'The warming trend is very clear and not many colder than average days observed in the recent years'
🎥@anttilip, based on @BerkeleyEarth data
Antti Lipponen / @anttilip.bsky.social
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We depend directly on pollinators for food security & maintaining biodiversity 🦋🍎🐝🌻🐦🌽🦇🐮
But they are declining in many areas around the world...
Safeguarding pollinators safeguards our own well-being
@IPBES #PollinationAssessment ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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Reach out and touch somebody's hand...✨🦎🎶
Watch this tiny lizard make a human friend...
🎥@_AnimalAdvocate @Alex_Verbeek
nitter.vloup.ch/_AnimalAdvocate/…
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Lightning fast and as small as your thumb ⚡
Take a moment to admire #hummingbirds — native to the Americas & comprising the biological family Trochilidae, with the vast majority of the 360 species found in the #Tropics.
🎥@BBCEarth
BBC Earth
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