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Want to know how we're making Europe greener?💚
Join us on May 6 in #Brussels to celebrate #EuropeDay and learn how 🇪🇺 is:
🌍tackling climate change
🐝protecting biodiversity
⚡boosting clean energy
🍏 making our food systems healthier
More info: climate.ec.europa.eu/news-yo…
Connecting forests along the Gilort River? 🌳🌊
That's what our #LIFEproject Fish for Life project is all about!🐟
Almost 6,000 tree saplings were planted to help restore riparian connectivity.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/FishforLIFE#ForOurPlanet#EUBiodiversity
📢 New research from @UNEP and UNEP-WCMC reveals the extinction risk faced by more than 1,500 mangrove-dwelling species 🐬🦆🌺
Find out more about our work assessing the impact habitat loss has had on mangrove associated species around the 🌍 ⤵️ bit.ly/44ldpbh
Happening today:
Anne Larigauderie, @IPBES Executive Secretary, will be a speaker in the @brsmeas COPs 2023 side event: "Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention."
Its aim? To build linkages from #science to support action.
📷@brsmeas
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
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👇🏽
📷@GENetworkgenevaenvironmentnetwork.org…
We are hiring! 💼
We are seeking a Programme Officer to join our large and growing Nature-based Solutions team 🌱
Closing date ➡️ 14 May 2023
Apply here 🔗 bit.ly/3AboRZo
Learn more about how the Danube Delta - Europe's largest remaining #wetland - was safeguarded through the European restoration initiative ➡️
bit.ly/3uNQJzO#GenerationRestoration
Nature-based Solutions can deliver multiple benefits in addressing several environmental and societal challenges.
UNEP-WCMC expert Valerie Kapos explains the barriers to scaling up the use of NbS and how it can be improved ⬇️ bit.ly/3ojLoAk
About 10% of the world’s forests (424 million ha) is allocated for biodiversity conservation.
The rate of increase in the area of forest designated primarily for biodiversity conservation has slowed in the last 10 years.
👉 bit.ly/GFRA2020#FRA2020#GFRA
Agriculture has the potential to protect biodiversity, but right now it's a leading driver of its decline.
To nourish the planet and achieve #ZeroHunger, this must change. Agrobiodiversity is the key to getting there 🌱 🥭🙌
Our latest study reveals the potential environmental impacts of planned road and rail development projects 🛣️🐸🥀
These global transport projects could impact the habitats of nearly 2,500 bird, amphibian, and mammal species ➡️ bit.ly/3Y4R5zB
🔔Happening this week:
2nd Meeting of the Range States of the Joint @CITES-CMS African Carnivores Initiative (ACI)
ACI focuses on conserving the African Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, and African Wild Dog.
🗓️1-4 May
🌍Entebbe, Uganda
Agenda and Documents: cms.int/en/meeting/second-me…
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 👇🐳