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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
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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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#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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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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ANSWER:
More than 40 per cent of amphibian species, almost a third of reef-forming corals, sharks and shark relatives and over a third of marine mammals are currently threatened.
- @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
As #BiodiversityDay approaches, challenge your knowledge about #biodiversity.🌿
What percentage of amphibian species are currently threatened? 🐸
🔎Have a look at the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment to find the answer & much more.
ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Biodiversity comes in many colours.
Yellow is a common colour found in a variety of organisms.🟡
For #BiodiversityDay, let's remember the need for conservation efforts to protect and sustain the vibrant tapestry of life on our planet.
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#DarEsSalaam in #Tanzania falls in a unique coastal forest #biodiversity hotspot of global importance.
This biodiversity catalogue showcases its unique native biodiversity & guides planting for ecosystem services such as shade, food & medicine🌳🌾🌿
🔗interactbio.iclei.org/resour…
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Urban #biodiversity is fundamental to making cities more liveable. Your city can calculate its ecological performance with the new IUCN Urban Nature Indexes. The platform is a collaboration with @unepwcmc and @UBHub_org #BuildBackBiodiversity
bit.ly/42AavOc
Via @IUCN
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We need to nurture the tree of life back to health.
Ahead of next week’s #BiodiversityDay, see how @UNDP and partners are supporting 140+ countries to translate the historic new #GlobalBiodiversityFramework into a reality on the ground.
go.undp.org/vNXb
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Investing in nature is critical for development and a sustainable future.
Unless world leaders, governments, businesses and individuals take bold steps #ForNature, efforts to address the #ClimateCrisis and achieve the #SDGs will fail.
go.undp.org/vNXb
#BiodiversityDay
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On the lush mountainsides of #VietNam, an indigenous community is drawing on ancestral knowledge to grow medicinal plants – all the while protecting the natural environment 🍃
ifad.org/en/web/latest/-/las…
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Bees and other pollinating insects are improving the food production of 2 billion small farmers worldwide, helping to ensure food security for the world's population.
But 17% of vertebrate #pollinator species are threatened with global extinction.
👉 bit.ly/3BfJhRt
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📢 2023 World Bee Day hybrid event
Join us this #WorldBeeDay to celebrate our tiny #FoodHeroes & explore how we can promote pollinator-friendly agricultural production!
TODAY 19 May at 10 am CEST
Register Now 👉bit.ly/3pktcqX
#BeeEngaged
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Seagrasses:
🐠Nurture 20% of the world's largest fisheries
🌊Filter ocean water for corals
💰Support livelihoods
🕊️Provide forage for migrating birds
🌎Store up to 18% of oceanic carbon
unep.org/news-and-stories/st…
#BuildBackBiodiversity #BiodiversityDay
Via @UNEP_AsiaPac
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How can we achieve the #GlobalGoals to protect and restore nature?
Join global leaders and changemakers as they tackle the critical questions at the #IUCNLeadersForum.
iucn.org/IUCNLeadersForum
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