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Have you already discovered the @ipbes podcast “Nature Insight”? 🤔
Seasons 1 & 2 are available on our YouTube channel. 📢
'Speed date' with #biodiversity experts and stay tuned for Season 3 coming soon!🌎 ⬇️
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
🚨Deadline approaching🚨
Without #IndigenousPeoples, we cannot effectively halt & reverse #biodiversity loss.
@IPBES has issued a call for Indigenous & local knowledge around the 🌏to contribute to its 3 ongoing assessments.
📆Deadline: 31 May
➡️ipbes.net/ilk-global-survey-…
🌱 🌎 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change @IPCC_CH is well known, but do you know the World Biodiversity Council?
The @IPBES is based in #Bonn and has been in existence since 2012.
Read more about its important mission here.👇
#WildlifeHeroesdeutschland.de/en/topic/envi…
Did you know? Rainforest #wildfires are increasing.
This is pushing the Amazon rainforest towards a critical tipping point, which, if surpassed, might lead to irreversible shifts in vegetation cover, impacting #biodiversity.🌱🐯
More 👇
oe.cd/cc-wildfires
Via @OECD_ENV
How much do you know about plastic pollution?
Ahead of this year’s #WorldEnvironmentDay, which focuses on solutions to #BeatPlasticPollution, take this quiz to see how much you know about the plastic pollution crisis.
Taking action for the 🌍 can be overwhelming. But each of us can make a change. ✊
As @UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution unfolds, see how #UNESCOCampus introduce innovative solutions to students to #BeatPlasticPollution.
on.unesco.org/3IIR7ap
🦐 Meet Krill 🦐
This vital species is at the center of the Southern Ocean ecosystem, feeding hundreds of species of animals 🐧🐋
But, according to @lewispughfdn the loss of Krill threatens Antarctic wildlife and the very basis of their food chain.
🌊 Dive into this insightful #infographic by @saveourseas showcasing the benefits of MPAs
These special zones, free from human interference, safeguard oceanic biodiversity 🐠, boost jobs, ensure food security 🦞 and promote our wellbeing
Via @saveourseas
Artwork by Jamy Silver
Embrace the call of biodiversity: It's time to restore, reconnect, and revive our natural world 🌿
Our mission is clear: revitalise #biodiversity and live in harmony with nature. Let's protect and preserve the web of life that sustains us.
unesco.org/en/days/biologica…
Via @UNESCO
In 2022, nations agreed to begin negotiations on a global #PlasticsTreaty.
This week, negotiators are meeting in Paris to discuss how to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Here are five key facts you need to know about plastics 💥 ⬇️
We rely on nature for our survival.
Yet, over one million species are at risk of extinction due to human activity.
The #GlobalGoals are the answer to declining biodiversity & degraded ecosystems. bit.ly/3IYIJAA
Increasing sustainable agricultural & forestry practices may include measures such as:
🌾Diversification of planted crop & forest species
🌳Agroforestry
🌿Agroecology
🐜Soil conservation
💦Reduction of fertilizer use
🦋🌡️#BiodiversityClimateScienceipbes.net/BiodiversityClimat…
What is soil fertility and how is it important?💭
Healthy soils sustain life. 🌿🌦️
But land degradation leads to, among other things, the loss of #soil fertility constituting a risk to food security.
— @ipbes#LandDegradation Assessment
📷 @fao#GlobalSoilPartnership
What are the different ways in which nature is valued?🌳💭
@ipbes#ValuesAssessment finds that there is a dominant global focus on short-term profits & economic growth, often excluding the consideration of multiple values of nature in policy decisions
👉 ipbes.net/the-values-assessm…
📌More important than ever: scientific data, insights and advise on biodiversity.
For >10 yrs the Intergov. Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES) with its HQ in 🇩🇪Bonn, gathers scientific data and advises policymakers. 👉 t1p.de/ieosz