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Forests are home to much of the 🌏's #biodiversity, but face a number of human-induced threats, including:
🌾Agricultural expansion
🏙Expansion of urban areas
🚗Expansion of infrastructure
#ForNature
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Turtles have to breathe within a rigid box. So how do some of them do it?💭🐢
#SciArt by @SecondNatureMB
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What do you know about great gray owls? 🦉
The Great Gray Owl is a powerful bird. Although light, it can break through hard snow to catch a small mammal. ❄️
Learn more about this owl with @NatGeo 👇
✍️@CarolynMWilke
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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💪Consumer organizations empower & increase our understanding of our rights, including the #RightToFood.
🎥Learn how we can all influence the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems through our actions.
👉 bit.ly/2OqNSvp
#FoodSystems
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Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May and June, with the warmest week ever recorded in July.
According to @WMO, the weather pattern is expected to make one of the next five years the warmest on record.
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Healthy 🐝🌳🦜🐡🌊🌻🌆🏞️🐡🐈⬛🦋
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Healthy 👶🏻👧🏼🧒🏽👦🏾👩🏿🧑🏻👨👨🏽🦰👱🏽♀️👱🏾👱🏿♂️👩🏽🦰👩🏿🦳🧑👨🏿🦳👩🏿🦲🧑🏼👳🏿♂️👧🏻👳🏽♀️🧔🏾👵🏻🧓🏽🧔♂️👶🏽
#ActNow for the 🌏🌍🌎 on
#WorldEmojiDay and every day
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#ClimateAction is needed to protect #biodiversity & the planet.🌎
Such as:
🌱Protect and restore carbon & species-rich ecosystems
🌳Increase sustainable agricultural & forestry practices
🌊Enhance and better target conservation actions to protect ocean & land surfaces
📷@IFAD
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#DYK...
There are various species of feather mites that live inside the hollow quills of feathers, in the fluffy down, and on the vanes of the wing and tail feathers 🐦🪶
Explore the diversity of feather mites in this diagram compiled by Fabio Akashi Hernandes🎨
@juleslhoward
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📖🌿@IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that negative trends in biodiversity & ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% of the assessed targets of the @GlobalGoalsUN #SDGs, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans, and land.
What can we do #ForNature?
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Do owls migrate?🦉
Well, Snowy Owls do! 🌨️🦉❄️
Even though Snowy Owls are #MigratoryBirds, it doesn’t mean the onset of colder temps in the Arctic signals an entire population to move south. Instead, different strategies are used by different owls.
🎨Owls by Amy Hamilton
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🌎Air
🌍Sky
🌏Soil
🌎Ocean
🌍Breeze
🌏Clouds
🌎Gravity
🌍Seasons
🌏Drylands
🌎Wetlands
🌍Fresh water
...are just a few of the many things that only Planet Earth provides for us. 🌻
Let's protect and restore our Earth. 🌿#ForOurPlanet
📷 @UNDP
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80% of the planet’s #biodiversity is found on traditional indigenous territories.
Preserving biodiversity is essential for food security & nutrition.
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We need water for a thriving economy, but billions of people and countless farms, factories, schools & healthcare centers lack safe water and toilets.
To accelerate change, we need more #WaterAction. wrld.bg/xtyy50P13Nw
Via @WorldBankWater
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Pelicans are found on many of the world's coastlines & also along lakes and rivers. 🌎🌊
#DYK that there are more than half a dozen species of pelicans, but all of them have the famous throat pouch for which the birds are best known? 🤔
📹IG: seanweekly
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We depend on bees & other #pollinators for our quality of life 🐝🦋🦇🐦
They play a vital role in maintaining our food security, contribute to biodiversity & support other ecosystem services and much more!
Learn more w/ @IPBES #PollinationAssessment ⤵️
ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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Better peatland management can be deployed as a nature-based solution to halt biodiversity loss, and support #climatechange mitigation, and adaptation!
Here are key recommendations on how peatlands can be protected from degradation ➡️ bit.ly/3X7KbZP
#PeatlandsMatter
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