Every year, the @WhitleyAwards celebrate effective grassroots conservation leaders across the Global South. 🌏
Meet the 7 winners who are implementing solutions to the global #biodiversity & climate crises at a local level. 👇🏽
✍️🏽📷@guardian
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#DYK that the IPBES Impact Tracking Database (TRACK) documents many impacts of @IPBES assessments worldwide?🤔
Explore 500+ registered impacts & discover how our work is contributing to the protection of #nature, or submit an entry yourself via TRACK.👇🏽
ipbes.net/impact-tracking-vi…
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New study led by biologist @Shermin_deSilva suggests:
"Elephants have lost almost 2/3 of their habitat across Asia, the result of hundreds of years of deforestation & increasing human use of land for agriculture & infrastructure."🐘
✍️🏽@hcregan for @CNN
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The BIONEXT project focuses on links between #biodiversity, #water, food, energy, transport, climate & #health w/ a focus on 🇪🇺.
2 of their experts, Paula Harrison & Hans Keune, are also authors of the upcoming @IPBES #NexusAssessment
👇🏽📷@BionextProject
bionext-project.eu/news/wear…
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🚨REMINDER
🔔Call for contributions on Indigenous & local knowledge🔔
We invite Indigenous Peoples, local communities & other knowledge holders from around the world to contribute to the 3 ongoing @IPBES #biodiversity assessments.
⏰Deadline: 8 May 2023
ipbes.net/ilk-global-survey-…
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Forests are home to much of the world's #biodiversity but face human-induced threats, including:
🌾Agricultural expansion
🏘Urbanization
🚦Associated infrastructure development
- @ipbes #GlobalAssessment
Let's protect our forests!🌳
🎥@FAOForestry
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GIF
The ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development took place last week.🌏
It emphasised the importance of protecting, conserving & restoring nature & the need to scale up #biodiversity finance from all sources.
#Fin4Dev
➡️un.org/development/desa/fina…
📹@UNDESA
UN DESA
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Last week, Eduardo Brondizio, co-chair of IPBES #GlobalAssessment, participated in a @GENetwork event on how a new panel on chemicals, waste & pollution could be established.🌏🔎
#OEWG2
Did you miss it? You can still watch the recording👇🏽
📷@GENetwork
genevaenvironmentnetwork.org…
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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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#ClimateChange is a key driver of change on land, in the ocean & in the atmosphere, caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
@wmo #StateOfClimate Report 2022
Let’s protect #biodiversity & the rest of nature.
🔎public.wmo.int/en/our-mandat…
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Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their presence can be key to community structure and function.
What are the key threats to their conservation? And what are some of the conservation mechanisms?
Learn more from @uniofexeter 👇🐳
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Look at this beautiful female Orange-tip butterfly!🦋
#DYK how to tell the male & female orange tip butterfly apart?
Males are easily recognisable as white butterflies w/ bright orange wing tips & females are white w/ black wing tips.
🎥@leedsbirder
Leeds Birder
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What is a multifunctional ‘scape approach and what does it incorporate?💭
‘scape being shorthand for:
⛰️land-
💧freshwater-
🌊seascapes
Learn more w/ #BiodiversityClimateScience from @ipbes & @ipcc_ch co-sponsored workshop report
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#DYK protecting whales benefits #biodiversity & even the climate? 🐳🐋
Because of their size & long life spans whales store more carbon than most species. Scientists from @uasoutheast are trying to determine just how much.
📰@jt_crfor for @japantimes 👇🏽
japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/0…
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"Hunting, fishing, pollution & degradation and loss of habitat are the main threats facing the Bolivian 🇧🇴 river dolphin.”
However, scientists & fishers are currently teaming up to protect this cetacean. 🐬🐬
📰@MongabayLatam 👇🏽
news.mongabay.com/2023/04/sc…
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“Overexploitation is one of the main threats to the survival of many land-based and aquatic species in the wild”
—Prof. John Donaldson, co-chair of the @ipbes #SustainableUse of Wild Species Assessment
Learn more: ipbes.net/sustainable-use-as…
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#Biodiversity loss affects us all, esp. our health:
“Biodiversity holds a treasure trove of chemicals that can be used to treat diseases from malaria to cancer. Its loss is driving species to extinction, dashing many hopes for medicine.”
📰@DeutscheWelle
dw.com/en/world-health-day-a…
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