🦁#Africa is home to an extraordinary diversity of #animals & #plants !
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This #biodiversity is key to #SustainableDevelopment & to addressing #ClimateChange🌊
Let's act together #ForNature🌺
Follow @IPBES to learn more⬇️
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Soil biodiversity reflects the variability among living organisms including a myriad of organisms not visible with the naked eye, such as micro-organisms, meso-fauna and the more familiar macro-fauna.
How can we conserve this precious resource?💭🐛
📷@FAO & @EU_Commission
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What are some of the pathways to produce & consume food sustainably?💭
🚜Agricultural practices
🧬Use of genetic resources
🐸#Biodiversity-friendly management
🌲Areas of natural habitat
🍅Food market transparency
🍲Healthy diets
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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1/2 "Transformative change is the foundational response necessary to address the global crisis of #biodiversity loss that threatens the wellbeing of every person." 🌎
More on @IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment by its Co-Chairs at @IPSNewsUNBureau
ipsnews.net/2023/07/transfor…
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How deep does the ocean go? 💭
We've only just begun to understand the deep, dark world that flows beneath us... 🌊🐟🐋🦐🐠🐡
Learn about the ocean depth from the video by @BusinessInsider 💡
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Insects account for an estimated 75% of animal life on Earth and are an invaluable and integral part of all life on our planet.
🐝🐛🦋🐞🐜🪰🪲🪳🦟🦗🕷️
Let’s appreciate and protect insects #ForNature and for ourselves.
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Fungi are among the most important and beautiful soil organisms 🦠🍄🌱
Explore the fungal tree of life, with an emphasis on the macroscopic diversity of fungi.
📷@laszlognagy @Uni_Szeged
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While there is more food produced than ever before, this is increasingly at the expense of other nature's contributions & ability to provide them in the future
— @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
Explore the links btwn #Biodiversity & #FoodSystems👉ipbes.net/global-assessment
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🌴The tropics are home to the highest levels of #biodiversity in the🌎but have also experienced the greatest loss of intact #ecosystems.
100 mil. ha deforested (1980-2000)
#ClimateChange, land-use change & direct exploitation create combined risks.
@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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✨🦋 Have you ever taken a closer look at moths and noticed their beauty?
Check out this fantastic slow-motion video of 15 different moth species flapping their wings. 🦋✨
🎥 @DrAdrianSmith
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More about how human-driven changes impact carnivores in the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment ⤵️
ipbes.net/global-assessment 🌱
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"A debate over troublesome bears in the Alps shows the complex challenge of rewilding large carnivores." 🐻
🗞️@Sophiehardach for @BBC_Future👇🏾
📷bbc.com/future/article/20230…
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⚕️🌿#OneHealth approach is part of the solution #ForNature
Discover how @UNBiodiversity is implementing a biodiversity-inclusive #OneHealth
👉cbd.int/health
#WHA74
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Much that we depend on and value - clean water, health, #biodiversity, food, energy & transport - is affected by #ClimateChange🌡🌎
Exceeding global warming of 1.5°C will have serious consequences for people & the rest of nature, some will be irreversible🥀
🎥@UNOCHA @ifrc
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Are you working online #ForNature?🌿💻
@IPBES is happy to share our new virtual backgrounds!
Choose the ones you like most and showcase the beauty of #biodiversity: from species to genetics and ecosystems.🦋🫘🌊
Download them for free👇🏽
📷dropbox.com/sh/1fue2p60h0746…
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A team of scientists led by @DeepMicrobe & Jorge Cortes has found a deep-sea octopus nursery at a low-temperature hydrothermal vent offshore of Costa Rica. 🇨🇷
The octopus could be a species of Muusoctopus not previously described.
🗞️ @SchmidtOcean 👇🏾
📷schmidtocean.org/scientists-…
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According to @UNEP's latest report on #mangrove forest change ⬇️
"We need to improve our knowledge of what species use & depend upon mangroves in order to better understand the consequences of changes in mangroves on people & our natural world"
🗞️@UNEP
unep.org/resources/report/de…
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🌿Planting seeds of love for nature! These 'edible playgrounds' teach kids to explore the beauty of #nature.🌱🌎
Environmental education can effectively support transformative change towards sustainability, according to @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
ipbes.net/global-assessment
📽️@wef
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📗Nature's Lexicon: Unlocking the enigmatic language of #biodiversity🌱
Mother Earth... also known as:
🌍Terra
🌍Mother Nature
🌍Planet Earth
🌍The Blue Planet
🌍Gaia
What do we mean when we say Mother Earth?🤔
According to @IPBES⬇️
#ForNature
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