Deadline alert 💥
The 6th meeting of the @ipbes Capacity-Building Forum will focus on building capacities of #youth on the findings of IPBES Assessments & engagement w/ the science-policy interface on #biodiversity.
Learn more & register by 21 April: ⬇️
ipbes.net/notification/6th-m…
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Indigenous & local knowledge is crucial in #conservation and sustainable use of #biodiversity.🌿
How is sustainable use of wild species essential to the well-being of many #indigenous peoples & local communities?
See the graphic below from @ipbes #SustainableUse Assessment👇
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While birds & insects are often highlighted as light pollution victims, artificial light impacts all animals. Even plants are disrupted by light cues.💡🥀
—Christopher Kyba
From individual to community, let's work together for greater impact.
🗞@NatGeo
nationalgeographic.com/envir…
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The @ipbes secretariat learned recently about the sudden passing of Dr. Tobias Nyumba of Kenya 🇰🇪, Lead Author on the IPBES #ValuesAssessment.
Tobias' loss will be felt across the conservation & scientific community.
We offer our sincere condolences to his family & colleagues.
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The @g7 #Climate, #Energy & #Environment Ministers met in Sapporo 🇯🇵 this weekend to discuss current global challenges.
They “stressed the importance of best available science & evidence & Indigenous knowledge in policy-making.”👇🏽
env.go.jp/content/000127577.…
#G7 #PolicyImpact
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Flying foxes play a vital role in maintaining forest health. In Indonesia’s Sulawesi 🇮🇩, conservation groups are working to protect them from different threats such as hunting for food & habitat loss.
📰 @Sean_Mow on @MongabayOrg 👇🏽
news.mongabay.com/2023/04/co…
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How do people relate to nature?🌿
The @ipbes #ValuesAssessment presents 4 perspectives to make a new typology of values useful for decision-making & protecting #biodiversity. These are: living from, with, in & as nature.
➡️ipbes.net/the-values-assessm…
📷@unesco
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The variety of ecosystems across land, fresh water & oceans, feed people, enhance health & help shield us from environmental disasters.🌪🌊
But #ClimateChange & other pressures are straining these ecosystems.🌡🍄
👇Some solutions offered by @insights_ias #ForNature.
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#IndigenousPeoples steward at least 25% of the world’s land, which contains much of the planet’s #biodiversity.
This week the 22nd session of the UN
Permanent Forum on #Indigenous Issues @UN4Indigenous is taking place.
Find out more👇🏽
📷social.desa.un.org/issues/in…
#WeAreIndigenous
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JOB OPPORTUNITY! 💻🌿📸
Are you a social media maven with experience of environmental issues and global development?
Join @IPBES as our #SocialMedia Manager (P2) to be based at the IPBES Secretariat Office in Bonn.
⏰Apply by 13 May 2023 👇
careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail…
#CommsJobs
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Marine ecosystems, from coastal to deep sea, now show the influence of human actions.
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Coastal marine ecosystems show large historical losses of extent and condition, as well as rapid ongoing declines.
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Learn more in this video based on findings from @ipbes #GlobalAssessment
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Yes, these are flamingos, but no, this isn't blood!
#DYK flamingo parents produce crop milk, red in colour, in their digestive tracts and regurgitate it to feed their young? 🦩
🎥@NewsroomPostCom
Newsroompost
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#ClimateChange & #biodiversity loss must be tackled together
"The likelihood and impacts of abrupt and/or irreversible changes in the climate system, including changes triggered when tipping points are reached, increase w/ further global warming."
—@ipcc_ch AR6 Synthesis Report
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The Nature Futures Framework, #NFF, aims to catalyse the development of nature- & Mother Earth-centred scenarios and models.
💡@IPBES invites the scientific community & other relevant actors, indigenous peoples & local communities, to test the NFF: ipbes.net/notification/notif…
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"Equitable and sustainable policy outcomes can be achieved when decision-making recognises and balances the diverse values of nature." 🌳🌎
— @ipbes #ValuesAssessment
Summary for Policymakers now available in all 6 UN languages⬇️
ipbes.net/the-values-assessm…
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Latin American bird scientists highlight factors marginalising region’s researchers: shortage of funding, bias against citing papers in Spanish & Portuguese, & more, leading to underrepresentation of data from Global South.
🗞️@ScienceMagazine⬇️
science.org/content/article/…
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Marine mammals rely on their senses to communicate, navigate, feel, hear & detect danger.🐳 Besides impacting their senses and ability to communicate, chemical & acoustic marine pollution is impairing their fertility & immune systems.
More by @annaturns: bbc.com/future/article/20221…
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#DYK Honey bees waggle their bodies to communicate? 🐝
Indeed, they have a special form of communication that allows them to indicate the location of a food source to other bees using complex symbols & movements.
@ScienceMagazine
✍️@LaMinda
edition.cnn.com/2023/03/09/w…
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#ClimateChange is playing an increasingly large role in #biodiversity loss.🥀
"Continued emissions will further affect all major climate system components, & many changes will be irreversible [...] and become larger with increasing global warming."
—@ipcc_ch AR6 Synthesis Report
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