💥Happening now:
Experts working on the @ipbes #TransformativeChange assessment are currently attending the 2nd author meeting hosted by @CATIEOficial in Turrialba, Costa Rica. 🇨🇷
We thank the experts for their time and effort and wish them a productive meeting! ✍️🏽📙
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On #AfricaDay, learn more about Africa's incredible biodiversity.
#DYK Africa has more than 2,500 species of birds? 🐦🐧🦩
Africa has rich & varied biological resources forming the continent’s natural wealth. 🌍
— @IPBES #RegionalAssessment for Africa
ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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#DYK that kelp forests are vital to marine biodiversity?🤔
@UNEP has published a new report examining the state of the world's kelp forests, including recommendations for restoration & conservation. 🌊
#GenerationRestoration #ForNature
📷🗞️@UNEP
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#DYK The African mainland harbours between 52,000 & 73,000 plant species? 🌵🌳🌼
Let’s protect Africa’s #biodiversity today & every day.
💡🌍 In honour of #AfricaDay, learn more about Africa's vast biodiversity w/ @IPBES #RegionalAssessment for Africa :
ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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📗Nature's Lexicon: Unlocking the enigmatic language of #biodiversity🌱
📌Grassland
📌Tundra
📌Desert
📌Freshwater
📌Marine
They are all types of ecosystems. But what’s the actual definition of the term ecosystem? 🤔
According to @IPBES ⬇️
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The @G7 Hiroshima Summit:
➡️Reaffirmed its commitment to enhance synergies between finance for climate & #biodiversity, including increased funding for Nature-based Solutions
➡️Committed to improve its biodiversity & conservation efforts
🗞️Outcome doc:
g7hiroshima.go.jp/documents/…
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New report by @EUEnvironment sums up⬇️
"Key evidence on why European ecosystems are in urgent need of concerted restoration efforts both inside existing designated protected areas but also outside these spaces."
📗@EUEnvironment
eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/ne…
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📗Nature's Lexicon: Unlocking the enigmatic language of #biodiversity🌱
Have you ever heard... ?
➡️Biodiversity is the web of life
➡️Biodiversity is the complex tapestry of species
But what’s the actual definition of biodiversity?🤔
According to @IPBES⬇️
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The sustainable use of wild species is impacted by a number of social & environmental drivers.
Find out more in the @IPBES #SustainableUse Assessment. 📘
Summary for Policymakers now available in all 6 UN languages⬇️
ipbes.net/sustainable-use-as…
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It is #BiodiversityDay!🌿
Biodiversity = the web of life. It’s vital to protect and restore biodiversity 🌏
@IPBES helps by strengthening policy through science.
#ForNature
📷@UNBiodiversity
More info ➡️ cbd.int/article/idb2023
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💥Breaking news on #BiodiversityDay💥
In addition to English, the Summary for Policymakers of the @ipbes #SustainableUse Assessment is NOW available in:
📌Arabic
📌Chinese
📌French
📌Russian
📌Spanish
#ForNature
Access all the language versions⬇️
ipbes.net/sustainable-use-as…
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#BiodiversityDay is a chance to celebrate nature - on which we all depend.🧩🍃
Biodiversity is ...
🕸The web of life that connects us
🌎The foundation of our well-being
🐾And so much more
#Biodiversity is severely threatened... but it's not too late to act #ForNature!
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Biological diversity is key to maintaining life as we know it. Its loss threatens us all, including our health & well-being. 🌱💧🦩
On this #BiodiversityDay, commit to protect the species & ecosystems around you!
💥Small actions matter too.💥
#ForNature
#BuildBackBiodiversity
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🌊🐋❄️💙💧
Biodiversity sparkles in a profusion of colours.
Blue is most often associated with the vast, yet fragile, diversity of the ocean & fresh water. 🔵
On #BiodiversityDay, let's celebrate the immense #biodiversity found in all ecosystems from water to sky.
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On May 22, we celebrate #BiodiversityDay!🌼🐠🌿
It is not too late to act on the main direct drivers of #biodiversity loss.
Today & every day, let's protect nature & nature's contributions to people. 🍏🌳
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#Biodiversity is life in all its colours.
Brown is recurrent in nature, from soils to forests, grasslands & wetlands.🟤
Let's support habitat diversity to ensure the survival of diverse species & functioning of complex ecosystems for #BiodiversityDay & every day.
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Facts & figures about #RedPandas according to @WWF:
1⃣ They were described in 1825
2⃣ There are, currently, less than 10k individuals
3⃣ Almost 50% of the red panda’s habitat is in the Eastern Himalayas
4⃣ They are considered endangered
📹 @PlanTIFIES
PlanTIFIES
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#DYK There's so much more to bees than honey?🍯
Bees & all animal pollinators are vital to #FoodSecurity, the maintenance of #biodiversity & vibrant ecosystems🌼🐝
On #WorldBeeDay, let's remember to #SavetheBees & all other animal pollinators!
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Bees & other pollinators help maintain our #biodiversity. 🐝🐝
However, they are under threat ⬇️
40% of invertebrate pollinators, particularly bees & butterflies and about 17% of vertebrate pollinators, such as bats, face extinction globally. 🦇🦋
#WorldBeeDay #BeeEngaged
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Pollinators are vital for #biodiversity🦋🌎
But intensive monoculture production & improper use of pesticides often pose serious threats to animal pollinators.
On #WorldBeeDay & every day, #BeeEngaged in pollinator-friendly agricultural production to protect pollinators.
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