Sustainability has been a central operating principle for #Indigenous communities for 100s of years...
What are some of the practices inspired by traditional and local knowledge that businesses can learn from?🌿
@karenkho @BusinessInsider
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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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Plankton, found in lakes, oceans, steams, and rivers, are the lungs of the planet.
Learn more about different types of plankton, threats they are facing and threats they may be causing with @NatGeo 🫁✨🌊
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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Here are 7 reasons to BEE grateful for #Pollinators - they:
🐝increase food production & security
🐝maintain biodiversity
🐝improve our diets
🐝some are a source of honey
🐝make foods taste better
🐝have a great work ethic
🐝are a source of inspiration
via @FAO 📸@NWF
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‘I don’t think many people know they exist’
The black cockatoo is nearly identical to its neighbor, the Carnaby’s
This mistaken identity threatens the Baudin’s #cockatoo🐦
📰@ange_heat via @guardian @BirdLife_News
theguardian.com/environment/…
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'From the salad course to dessert, most of the foods on your plate can be traced back to carefully cultivated plants.'
Explore the beauty of the things we eat, magnified hundreds of times.
@NatGeo / Robert Dash #WorldFoodDay
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Rivers are life... 💧
Learn about the significance of the magnificent Martuwarra (Fitzroy River, Western #Australia) 🇦🇺 from Dr. Anne Poelina: bit.ly/39MhBWH
Anne was also a guest on @IPBES #NatureInsight Podcast 🎧 👉natureinsight.podbean.com/e/…
#ForNature
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"One million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction"
—says Environmental Audit Committee report into the UK's footprint on global biodiversity, quoting @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
Read it via @CommonsEAC 👉publications.parliament.uk/p…
#EACbiodiversity
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1️⃣ month to go!
📢#COP26
🇬🇧Glasgow, UK
📅31 Oct - 12 Nov 2021
@COP26 will bring the world together to accelerate action towards the goals of the #ParisAgreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (@UNFCCC).
The countdown is on.
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Do you want to take part in the review of the draft @IPBES nature futures framework & methodological guidance?
Join a stakeholder workshop on 6 Oct
1. Register as a user: ipbes.net/user/register
2. Register as a reviewer for the draft: ipbes.net/registration/natur…
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"@IPBES has concluded that through urgent ‘#TransformativeChange’, the trend of continued biodiversity loss can be reversed."
—@CommonsEAC report into the UK's footprint on global biodiversity, quoting @IPBES #GlobalAssessment 🌿
publications.parliament.uk/p…
#EACbiodiversity
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"[...] Lots of birds migrate, and they experience different environments at different points of their migratory cycle. We didn't know how these different environments affected the birds' microbiome"
—Heather Skeen, @FieldMuseum
@molecology #WMBD sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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What are environmental indicators and why are they important?💬
Explore these questions in the Environmental Indicators Guidebook for the #Pacific Island countries by @SprepChannel 🌏🏝️
#ResilientPacific
pacific-data.sprep.org/resou…
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🌿Join @UNBiodiversity, @UNEP & @UNDP at the #NatureForLife Hub🌿
Oct 4: Transforming our Relationship with the Planet
Oct 6: Transforming Production from the Ground up
Oct 6: Toward a Nature-Positive Future
Stream it 9AM-3PM EDT each day at 👉 natureforlifehub.org
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Planting, protecting & restoring the right trees in the right places is a nature-based solution to help reduce climate change 🌳🌲
#TreesForJane aims to stop deforestation & help replenish the world’s trees and forests
Visit treesforjane.org via @JaneGoodallInst
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On this International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste join @FAO to learn how reducing food loss and waste can strengthen the sustainability of our #FoodSystems.
🥑🍉🥦🍇🌽🍒🍍🍅🥝
#FLWday #GoodFood4All
Learn more👉bit.ly/32SqvPF
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Interested in learning more about #indigenous #FoodSystems?🌽🚜
Join #LandDialogues webinar by @LandPortal @FordFoundation @TRF_Stories @TenureFacility
30 Sept 2021, 3pm CEST
#WeAreIndigenous
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Today is Intl Day of Awareness of Food Loss & Waste #FLWDay🍎🌽🥦
An estimated 17% of🌍food production is wasted & accounts for 38% of energy usage in the🌍#FoodSystems
Reducing food loss & waste provides a powerful means to improve🌍’s health
@FAO
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Marine #PlasticPollution has increased tenfold since 1980, affecting 44% of seabirds.
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment Report on #Biodiversity and #Ecosysem services
#WorldMigratoryBirdDay #SingFlySoar
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Save the date📅
Ninth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (@IPBES)
#IPBES9 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 2 July 2022
ipbes.net/notification/save-…
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