Why is #biodiversity important? How is biodiversity loss impacting the world? And what can we do to stop it?🐝🐯
Explore these and other questions in this animation by @royalsociety featuring Sir David Attenborough💭🎥
The Royal Society
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Examples of how people and nature can prosper together are often lacking in the urban context 🏙️🌳
A new framework is filling this gap, using the @IPBES #NatureFutures Framework
Learn more via @sthlmresilience
stockholmresilience.org/rese…
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📢COMING UP: 5th Meeting of the @IPBES capacity-building forum
📅1 June
⏰2-4.30 pm CEST
💬Business and biodiversity networks, businesses & other IPBES stakeholders, members & observers are invited to participate in the meeting.
💻 ipbes.net/events/5th-meeting…
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📢@planttreaty calls for farmers' organizations, genebanks, research institutions, and regional & intl organizations working with plant genetic resources to apply to the #CallforProposals under its Benefit-sharing Fund
bit.ly/BSF5-CFP #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed🌱
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The health of soils is dependent on the mix of living organisms they contain, incl. bacteria, fungi, protozoa, insects, worms, other invertebrates & vertebrates. How can we conserve this #soil #biodiversity?
Explore @IUCN's brief on conserving soils👉
iucn.org/resources/issues-br…
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Land degradation is a pervasive, systemic phenomenon: it occurs in all parts of the terrestrial world and can take many forms🏜️
—@IPBES #LandDegradation Assessment
🎥Californian drought from space between 2020-2021 via @ESA_EO
ESA Earth Observation
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When disturbed by a predator in the canopy of the world’s tallest trees, some salamanders sail through the air to safety at least dozens of feet below.
Turns out they rely on the same techniques as human skydivers🪂🦎
📰@JudeLB_Coleman @NatGeo
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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TODAY: Meeting of #G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers in Berlin 🇩🇪
Anne Larigauderie, @IPBES Executive Secretary, will address G7 highlighting the need for science to inform the protection, conservation, restoration & #SustainableUse of biodiversity.
#ForNature
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What unites climate change, biodiversity, food security, energy security, equity and many other global challenges?
Water💧
The first review of #EconomicsOfWater: An Agenda for the Common Good by @watercommongood was just launched: weforum.org/events/world-eco…
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Rivers work for people and #ForNature 🌿
They provide crucial habitats for a host of animals and support the survival of people and the rest of nature around the world.
Take a look at this visualization of the breathtaking rivers of Africa by @GrasshopperGeo🌍💧
#AfricaDay
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Across terrestrial biomes globally, the status and trends of nature's contributions to people #NCPs differ 🌳⛈️🏃
Explore the global distribution of selected indicators relevant to the NCPs via @IPBES #GlobalAssessment: ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Biodiversity is vital to food security and nutrition, livelihoods, and to the health of ecosystems 🌽
A new @FAO publication provides actions to address the loss of #biodiversity in food and agriculture.
#CGRFA #Post2020
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⚠️greenhouse gas concentrations
⚠️sea level rise
⚠️ocean heat
⚠️ocean acidification
4 key #ClimateChange indicators that set new records in 2021 according to @WMO's #StateofClimate report:
library.wmo.int/index.php?lv…
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The location & conservation of hotspots of diversity of landraces, breeds & varieties play a critical role in ensuring a gene pool with a variety of traits🌽
This can provide resilience against climate change, pests & pathogens
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment ipbes.net/global-assessment
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"The most amazing link to our history"
Read a story about communities working to recover and reclaim their culture and heritage, one seed at a time🍉🌿
✍️@cecilianowell @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Restoring #biodiversity, preventing pollution, and limiting #ClimateChange - opportunities to improve the quality of life of billions of people around the world🌎🌍🌏
This is the opportunity of #Stockholm50 🌿
UN Environment Programme
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Only 15% of habitats in the EU🇪🇺 are in a good condition🌳🍄
Pollution of air, water and soil, climate change, over-exploitation of animals through illegal harvesting and unsustainable hunting and fishing, all negatively impact habitats.
📷@EUEnvironment
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⏰#IPBES9 starts in 6 weeks⏰
A number of informal meetings among Governments will take place between 23-31 May discussing @IPBES #ValuesAssessment and #SustainableUse Assessment, as well as #BizBiodiversity scoping, among other agenda items.
Learn more: ipbes.net/events/ipbes-9-ple…
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Insects account for an estimated 75% of animal life on Earth and are an invaluable and integral part of all life on our planet.
🐝🐛🦋🐞🐜🪰🪲🪳🦟🦗🕷️
Let’s appreciate and protect insects #ForNature and for ourselves.
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