We are pleased to welcome #Suriname 🇸🇷 as our 138th member!
The @IPBES family continues to grow – strengthening the interface between biodiversity science and policy #ForNature.
Learn more 👇
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The global rate of plant and animal species extinction is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years and it is accelerating 📈
Learn more from @IPBES #GlobalAssessment: ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Good news #ForNature from France! 🇫🇷
Pollution, incl. #PlasticPollution, is one of the top direct drivers of #BiodiversityLoss.
A new law banning plastic packaging on most fruit and vegetables came into effect in France from New Year's day🍋🥒🍊
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With #COVID19 pandemic & rising attention to #ZoonoticDisease emergence, experts continue to examine how interactions between humans, wildlife & domestic animals need to change.
Explore an analysis w/@TRAFFIC_WLTrade feat. @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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Extreme heat⚠️🌡️ building in #SouthAmerica is likely to test infrastructure to the limit and threaten many all-time heat records.
See a visualization of the heatwave by 🎥@ScottDuncanWX
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What is the #NagoyaProtocol? Why is it important?💭
@UNBiodiversity explains the importance of #AccessAndBenefitSharing for #post2020 sustainability💡
#theABSweALLneed
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#DYK
There are various species of feather mites that live inside the hollow quills of feathers, in the fluffy down, and on the vanes of the wing and tail feathers🐦🪶
Explore the diversity of feather mites in this diagram compiled by Fabio Akashi Hernandes🎨
via @juleslhoward
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Six dinosaurs, an Indian beetle named after Larry the cat, and dozens of crustaceans critical to the planet’s carbon cycle were among 552 species described by scientists at the Natural History Museum @NHM_London in 2021 🪲🦀🦕
story by @pgreenfielduk
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The planet cannot wait.
🌡️Climate action failure
⛈️Extreme weather &
🐨#Biodiversity loss
...rank as the 3 most potentially severe global risks for the next decade according to the new #risks2022 report by @wef🔖
#ForNature
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Nature is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals🌿
The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that current negative trends in biodiversity will undermine progress towards 80% of the assessed targets of SDGs, including #SDG1: No Poverty
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Nature is declining🌿
Direct and indirect drivers of change in nature have accelerated during the past 50 years.
The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment found #InvasiveAlienSpecies to be one of the direct drivers with the largest global impact.
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Most of the world's vital food crops depend on pollinators like bees🐝🦋
Join @FAO in thanking the tiny #FoodHeroes that bring diversity and quality of fruits & vegetables to our plates
🍒🥦🥝🧅🥭🍋
Food and Agriculture Organization
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“There have to be businesses that are not only good for your pocket, they have to be good for people, they have to be good #ForNature, they have to be good for future generations”
—@Brigittelgb, @IPBES expert in conversation w/@thegreatglatsky @guardian
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Dialogue Workshop for #IPBESstakeholders on review of the chapters and SPM of the @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies assessment
📢Open to all experts registered as reviewers
📅20 January 2022
⏰1-3 pm CET
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'@IPBES #GlobalAssessment concluded that #nature is deteriorating at a rate and scale unprecedented in human history
1 million species of plants & animals out of a total of ~8.1 million species are at risk of extinction'
—Anne Larigauderie Exec Secretary of @IPBES 🌿📗
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🌍#DYK that Africa hosts:
🐦1/5 of the world’s bird species
🌱1/6 of the world’s plant species
🦁1/4 of the world’s mammals (the greatest diversity of large mammals in the world too🎉)
More in @IPBES #RegionalAssessment for #Africa
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❄️#NiagaraFalls covered in ice... a sight to behold
The falls themselves aren't actually frozen but the freezing temperatures result in ice formations and create an illusion of the “Frozen Falls”🌡️🧊
📽️ via @JoaquimCampa
Joaquim Campa
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Main direct drivers of marine #biodiversity loss:
🎣#Fishing
🐙Changes in the uses of the sea & coastal land
Other drivers:
🏭#Pollution from land sources
🌊#Ocean mining
🐟Ocean acidification
🛍️Plastic micro- & nanoparticles
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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The peatlands of the Congo Basin support remarkable levels of biodiversity 🐸🐦🌿💧
They hold 30 billion+ metric tons of carbon & are home to showstopping wildlife, along with diverse plant species.
More about #Congo #peatlands via @johnccannon @mongabay
news.mongabay.com/2021/12/th…
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The Americas region is highly biologically and culturally diverse.
It hosts 7 out of the 17 most biodiverse countries of the world and spans from pole to pole.
—@IPBES #RegionalAssessment for the #Americas
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