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Have you ever seen a firefly flash its light?✨
Fireflies face many threats ‼️
🪨Habitat degradation & loss
💡Light pollution
🌡#ClimateChange
🌱Invasive species
💧Poor water quality
🥀Pesticide use
✍️Learn more with @hinakalam 👇
ctvnews.ca/climate-and-envir…
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🌳🌴Trees offer a lot more than just shade and beauty in an urban environment.
They are an important part of @FAO's #GreenCities Initiative, #climate heroes in concrete jungles, reducing energy use, improving water quality, and much more:
bit.ly/GreenCitiesBrochure
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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…
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🌡️🌊 Marine heatwaves are a pressing threat to our oceans' biodiversity and vital ecosystem services! 🐋🌏 Learn how rising sea temperatures disrupt marine life and the services they provide in this eye-opening article VIA @Nature
nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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Wild plants are found in many products we use daily but often they are not sourced or used sustainably.
This threatens plant conservation efforts & the #FoodSecurity of those who harvest them.
4 ways you can support the sustainable use of wild plants👇
#Biodiversity
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Animal pollination plays a vital role as a regulating ecosystem service in nature
🐝🌸🐝🌳🐝🌻🐝🌿
Building back better for bees means supporting #COVID19 recovery activities that decrease drivers of biodiversity loss & ecosystem degradation
#ForNature
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In the last century, the global tiger population has fallen drastically.
Illegal trade, habitat loss & poaching are some of the major threats 🐯🐅 face.
On Saturday's #InternationalTigerDay, spread the word & encourage others to help protect big cats.
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Tigers are critical for sustaining diverse & healthy forest ecosystems. But #ClimateChange, habitat loss, poaching, and human-wildlife conflicts are causing a decline in their populations.
On #InternationalTigerDay, discover why we need to protect them.
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#DYK according to @FAOForestry forests play a crucial role in... 🤔
🔵 Integrated risk management
🟢Regulation of water resources
🔵#Biodiversity conservation
🟢Ecosystem restoration
🔵& more
More with @FAOForestry 👇🏾
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On this #InternationalTigersDay let's make a commitment to safeguarding big cats and protecting our #Sundarbans, for them to grow and survive. 🐯
📷 Emdadul Islam Bitu /UNDP Bangladesh
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Rivers are damaged by pollution, overfishing and over-extraction of water for agriculture, industry & energy
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is an opportunity to make a difference for freshwater ecosystems.
Join #GenerationRestoration: decadeonrestoration.org/
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It’s #MangroveDay 📢
Mangroves are essential to #biodiversity but are disappearing at an alarming rate!
What can we do to protect and restore them?
1⃣ Understand their importance & what's driving their loss
2⃣ Make sustainable choices
3⃣ & much more
🔗unep.org/events/campaign/int…
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Today is #TigerDay! 🐯
#DYK that tiger populations have fallen by about 95% since the early 20th century?
Poaching, trafficking and habitat loss are some of the biggest threats tigers face every day.
Let's protect their habitats & ensure their survival.
🎥: Mithun Hunugund
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DYK that over 80% of the human diet is provided by plants?
Yet, only 3 cereal crops provide 60% of energy intake globally.
Depending on 3 cereal crops threatens our food security and biodiversity.
We need to #BuildBackBiodiversity together. go.undp.org/vNXb
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The International Congress for Conservation Biology, @ICCB2023, is currently taking place in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼
Come meet team @IPBES and learn more about the impact of science on policy and #IPBESstakeholder engagement!
#ICCB2023
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Did you know there are about 2,500 Royal Bengal Tigers on the planet?
The #ClimateCrisis is having an adverse effect on these species & their habitats.
This #InternationalTigerDay, learn how UNEP is working to save tigers in Bhutan. #ClimateAction
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Let’s recognize and celebrate the rural people doing their part to bring our planet back from the brink 👏👏
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#Agroecology is key for sustainable production & consumption, and can also increase yields, productivity & profitability.🌱
Find out how planting plants and trees benefits lavender and animal life.🐾
✍️@_ChrissieMc for @NatGeo
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🌏#DYK that #AsiaPacific region has more than HALF of the world's remaining mangrove areas?
It is one of the most diverse regions in the world in social, cultural, biological, climatic & geo-morphological terms
Learn more from @IPBES #RegionalAssessment ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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