Healthy peatlands have multiple values for people and #ForNature 🌿🦆
However, scientists estimate that 15% of the world's #peatlands have been drained for land development and agriculture.
Learn more via @pewenvironment pew.org/3GGUpbQ
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Cities are essential to protecting biodiversity, restoring ecosystems, providing safe and accessible green open spaces and reconnecting people with nature.
Which city in the US 🇺🇸 has the largest percentage of land used for parks?🤔 🏞️
📊@SafeGraph #CitiesWithNature
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The @IPBES #ValuesAssessment will launch in 1 month📢
Here are a few facts about the assessment...
📚cross-disciplinary
🌍by 82 international experts from 47 countries
💭draws on 13,000+ references
⏳4 years in development
💰a total cost of US$1 million+
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Beavers are famous ecological engineers — their dams raise water levels, creating freshwater habitat 🦫🦫🦫
Now, research shows their outstanding ability to foster biodiversity.
via @NaturePortfolio
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Meet the lion's mane jellyfish🦁🐙
It is one of the largest species of jellyfish, with tentacles growing up to almost 100 feet in length. It harbors a powerful sting to catch their prey.
🎥@oceana #WorldOceanDay
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A blue planet, a healthy future.🔵🌊
#SDG14 Life Below Water is the #SDG of the month
This month will explore the impacts of the decline of the ocean, the ocean-climate nexus, and which science-based solutions are available.
un.org/sustainabledevelopmen…
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Happy #WorldOceanDay! 🐋🎇
The ocean connects, sustains, and supports us all. Yet its health is severely threatened and so is the well-being of all that depend on it.
Learn more about this year's theme via @UN 🌊
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With 90% of big fish populations depleted, and 50% of coral reefs destroyed, we are taking more from the ocean than can be replenished.
8 June is #WorldOceanDay under the theme 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 🌊🐠
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💭#DidYouKnow... ~86% of identified right whales are estimated to have been entangled in fishing gear at least once in their life?🐋
Explore a new map showcasing whale migrations around the globe with @physorg_com & @WWF_Whales 🐳🌍
phys.org/news/2022-02-expose…
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Tomorrow is #WorldOceanDay2022 🌊
How can we identify and differentiate between the 7 different marine turtle species?🐢
Learn more from this infographic🎨by @PaigeStrudwick @ICRSreefstudent @ICRSCoralReefs
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When scientists started looking for genetic differences in ribbon weed across the bay, they came across a puzzle: samples taken from sites 180km apart suggested there were not multiple specimens of Posidonia australis, but 1 single plant 1⃣🌿
📰@readfearn
theguardian.com/environment/…
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✨📢#IPBES9 Stakeholder Day will take place on 2 July in Bonn
Curious about the role stakeholders play in the work of @IPBES? Watch the #IPBESstakeholder spotlight series👀
👉bit.ly/StakeholderSpotlightS…
👉Learn more ipbes.net/events/ipbes-9-sta…
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Drought is among the most severe natural disasters. By 2050, it may affect ~3/4 of the world's population.
On 17 June, join @UNCCD for Desertification and Drought Day to explore ideas on drought-proofing our future.
#UNited4Land 👉unccd.int/2022-desertificati…
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Changes in land and sea use are among the direct drivers of change in nature with the largest global impact.
But which ecosystems are they impacting and how?
Learn more with @IPBES #GlobalAssessment💭ipbes.net/global-assessment
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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Biodiversity – the diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems – is declining faster than at any time in human history.
We have #OnlyOneEarth. What can we do to protect it?💭🪸🌿
Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay.
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Tender moments happen across the entire animal kingdom✨
Start your weekend with a video of this intimate moment between a gorilla family 🦍🤎
🎥@malengtravel
MalengTravel Africa
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Speed dating is about having a short time to communicate things that could change your life.
On this podcast, we introduce you to people with unique insight into our relationship with nature.
Season 2 of #NatureInsight is available now 🎧➡️ link.chtbl.com/NatureInsight…
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"We must place true value on the environment & go beyond GDP as a measure of human progress and well-being"
—@UN SG @antonioguterres addressing @StockholmPlus50
Learn more about multiple values of nature in @IPBES #ValuesAssessment coming in July 2022🌿
Stockholm+50
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5 June is #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌎
2022 marks 50 years since the 1972 @UN Conference on the Human Environment, widely seen as the first international meeting on the environment.
Today and every day, let's celebrate, protect and restore our planet.
@UNEP worldenvironmentday.global
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#Stockholm50 is an opportunity for:
⚖️Bold choices.
⌛️ Urgent action.
🌎A better future.
🟢A healthy planet.
Follow @StockholmPlus50, happening 2-3 June🌿in 🇸🇪
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