The values that we individually ascribe to nature are vital parts of our cultures, identities, economies & ways of life.
How can we reflect these multiple values in our decisions about nature?
Learn more w/@IPBES #ValuesAssessment: bit.ly/IPBES_VA
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📖🌿@IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that negative trends in biodiversity & ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% of the assessed targets of the @GlobalGoalsUN #SDGs, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans, and land.
What can we do #ForNature?
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Meet gongylus gongylodes, also known as the wandering violin mantis🎻🎶
The mantis is especially known for swaying its body back and forth to imitate a stick flowing in the wind.
🎥@musizuki_moro
虫好きモロ【カマキリを愛する者】
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The use of wild species involves both the practices associated with harvest or other direct interactions with wild species & the end purpose for which the species is used.
@ipbes #SustainableUse Assessment considers the following taxa, practices & types of use of wild species👇
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#TransformativeChange can be accelerated by different groups across society.
Each group can play a role in advancing the consideration of the diverse values of nature in decision-making.
What can we do #ForNature?🙌🌿
📖@IPBES #ValuesAssessment: bit.ly/IPBES_VA
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👀Check out the explainer video from @BESNet_UNDP to learn more about the role of BES-Net Trialogues in helping policymakers, practitioners and researchers to design solutions together and influence decision-making #ForNature 👉 youtube.com/Lwbkr0FpLc0
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The @IPBES #SustainbleUse of Wild Species Assessment 'makes clear that ensuring the sustainability of the use of wild species is critical to reversing the global trend in biodiversity decline.'
💡@StateDept #IPBES9
state.gov/ninth-session-of-t…
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Policymakers have the potential to ensure a more balanced consideration of nature’s diverse values, but success in this regard has been limited.
How can we include more diverse values of nature in policymaking?✍️🌺
#ValuesAssessment bit.ly/IPBES_VA
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We are all interconnected in this globalized world: by the disasters around the world, the risks, the root causes - and also the solutions.
Stay tuned for the new report from @unuehs: #InterconnectedRisks 🪢🌍
Coming soon on 31 August📅✨
UN University - EHS
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'The current dominant global focus is on short-term profits and economic growth, often excluding the consideration of multiple values of nature in policy decisions.'
📰@MichelleQuahBT @businesstimes #ValuesAssessment
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Transformative changes needed to address the global biodiversity crisis rely on shifting-away from predominant values that currently over-emphasize individual material gains to nurturing sustainability-aligned values across society
#ValuesAssessment ipbes.net/values-assessment
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A new report by @IPBES offers insights, analysis & tools to establish more sustainable use of wild species of plants, animals, fungi and algae around the world.
📰@TimesNow about #SustainableUse Assessment
timesnownews.com/mirror-now/…
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Humans use ~50,000 wild species routinely and 1 out of 5 people of the world’s 7.9 billion population depend on those species for food & income
1 in 3 people rely on fuel wood for cooking, the number even higher in #Africa
📰@Independent #SustainableUse
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Today is #MangroveDay📅
Mangroves have multiple values 🐸🌿💧
Learn more about mangroves' contribution to local economies in the Western Indian Ocean region: bit.ly/3wfGcgR
via @MangrovesNow @IUCN @WWF @WetlandsInt
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60 million tons/year of wild aquatic species are used for human food.
Future #SustainableUse of fisheries may require...
🎣Supporting small-scale fisheries
🌡️Adapting to #ClimateChange
🏢Creating effective transboundary institutions
& more
bit.ly/IPBES_SUA
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Nature-based tourism is an important non-extractive practice & recreational use of wild species.
Demand for media (documentaries🎥) & in situ observing (wildlife watching tourism👀) related to wild species was growing until 2020🐘
#SustainableUse bit.ly/IPBES_SUA
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🦋#ICYMI🦋
The migratory #MonarchButterfly, known for its spectacular annual journey of up to 4,000 kilometers across the Americas, has entered the @iucnredlist of Threatened Species as Endangered, threatened by habitat destruction and climate change
iucn.org/press-release/20220…
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Economic and political decisions have predominantly prioritised certain values of nature, particularly market-based instrumental values of nature, such as those associated with food produced intensively.
#ValuesAssessment 👉bit.ly/IPBES_VA
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"Assessing nature in purely monetary terms can (...) be harmful to people and the environment, according to the world’s largest assessment of the environmental valuation.
📰@EhsanMasood @nature about @IPBES #ValuesAssessment
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The trade in wild species provides income for exporting countries & harvesters and can diversify sources to redirect pressure from species being unsustainably used, it also decouples consumption of wild species from their places of origin.
➡️bit.ly/IPBES_SUA
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