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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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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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⚕️🌿#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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🌱✨ Small scale, big impact! Check out this inspiring article and videos showcasing how even small actions can make a significant difference in combating #climatechange. 💪🌍
👉ow.ly/aMoa50P3gTT
#ClimateAction #SAGA
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Tai Shan, a giant panda cub born in captivity, plays with his mom in Washington, District of Columbia
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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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#DYK that wetlands are biodiversity hotspots?
🤔💭💚🐊🦀
Let's appreciate and conserve these vital habitats!
Check out 5 facts on why wetlands deserve to be celebrated: ehs.unu.edu/news/news/unsung…
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Human, animal, plant & environmental health are all inextricably linked.
This means that to address global health issues we must collaborate across all sectors.
A #OneHealth approach is key.
But what is One Health exactly?
👉 bit.ly/3XBUUwq
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The world just had the hottest June on record, and this week the global average daily temperature reached an all-time high.
We need more ambitious #ClimateAction now.
Details from @WMO: public.wmo.int/en/media/news…
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Forests are more than just a beautiful sight 🌳
They are a resilient source of food, livelihoods, & are one of our best investments against the climate crisis.
Protecting these precious resources contribute to healthy communities & improved planetary health.
via @CIFOR @ICRAF
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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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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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#DYK rice, cassava and sorghum crops are most intensively cultivated in areas that do not have the greatest harvest potential!
Our study analysing the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability offers interesting excerpts ➡️ bit.ly/3sSzPza
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