@UNBiodiversity

@UNBiodiversity

Clement Metivier

@clemetivier

@UNBiodiversity

🌱For the next couple of weeks, countries are coming together at the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 to adopt the landmark “Global Biodiversity Framework”.

➡️But what are the 7⃣elements that must be included in that framework, for it to be really ambitious & transformative?

A thread⤵️

1⃣ - A clear and ambitious “Mission” for 2030, to halt and reverse the loss of #biodiversity and secure a #NaturePositive world by the end of the decade.

👉It means that in 2030, we have more #Nature than there is now.

explore.panda.org/cop15/naturepo…

2⃣ - 2030 targets to conserve at least 30% of land, freshwater and oceans, and restore degraded ecosystems globally - placing Indigenous Peoples & local communities at the centre of conservation policies.

explore.panda.org/cop15/30by30

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NowThis

@nowthisnews

Xiye Bastida, the co-founder of the Re-Earth initiative, spoke with the Nature+ Newsroom at COP27 about the importance of not allowing corporations to dictate what activists can and cannot talk about.

Bastida said a supporting foundation of the Children and Youth Pavilion told attendees not to allow anyone to brand their organizations.

She mentioned that one of COP26’s issues was that it looked like an ad campaign, thanks to the corporate sponsors, and that COP27, which is sponsored by Coca-Cola, is exactly the same.

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UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳😷

@UNESCO

@UNESCO_MAB

Fact: there are #BiosphereReserves in 131 countries 🌎

Each take a holistic approach towards ecosystem conservation & promote a full reconciliation with the living world through sustainable livelihoods & research.

A thread on @UNESCO_MAB's work #ForNature ⬇️

@UNESCO_MAB

@UNESCO_MAB (2/7)

🤝 When places reconcile conservation with #SustainableDevelopment & research, @UNESCO designates them as #BiosphereReserves.

As of 2022, these amazing places are allowing 250 million people to learn and thrive on sustainable solutions!

en.unesco.org/mab/ #ForNature

@LVMH

(3/7)

The Tsimane have always guarded the Beni #BiosphereReserve in Bolivia.

To create a sustainable economic activity and restore ecosystems, the Amazon programme - supported by @LVMH - is helping them build a greenhouse & providing native seeds.

on.unesco.org/3wCuo8S

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Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS)

@detoxconflict

Russia's front around the northern #Donbas town of #Lyman appears to have led to fighting in and around the Holy Mountains National Nature Park (Святі Гори національний природний парк), also: Sviati Gori. we've picked up fires around the park in the last week. #Ukraine 1/5 🧵🔽

The park (green area), which comprises chalk cliffs along the Donets river is 91% forested and is highly biodiverse, with 1/3 of the species found in #Ukraine recorded. Sviati Gori's boundaries are visible via protectedplanet.net/555719463 2/5

@NASA

During the past week @NASA #FIRMS data records numerous fires in within the PA's eastern borders as the front line has pushed around #Lyman. 3/5

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monferodinon

@monferodinon

🧑‍🌾👨‍💻🦉🐺🐺🐝👨‍🌾🌿🧙‍♂️🕵️‍♂️🥷Gentes de las #RenovablesAsíNO #renovablesSiPeroAsíNO
#aldeaslibresdemacroeólicos
Percibimos una GRAN FUERZA en las redes.
🧶Abrimos HILO para reflexionar y ofrecer herramientas y tácticas que optimizan la lucha por los territorios en nuestras redes:

En twiter @ están todos nuestros representantes y organismos, que deberían trabajar por nuestra vida y patrimonio y no para € del oligopolio.
📝 Ellos/as son los responsables de la factura de la luz, de que nos quieran poner macroeólicos a 500m de nuestras casas, etc,

Para ellos es sumamente importante su imagen pública en las redes. Constantemente envían mensajes de solidaridad y compromiso con el medio ambiente, cuando su práctica políticas no se corresponden con esos mensajes. Es lo que llamamos #greenwashing
#RenovablesAsiNo

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Alexander Verbeek 🌍

@Alex_Verbeek

🌎

1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.

After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.

What would they report home?

🧵Thread

🌎

2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.

Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.

🧵 Thread continues

#nature #life
theplanet.substack.com/p/humans-only-…

🌎

3. But:

Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has lost 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.

Of all the mammals on earth, 96% are livestock and humans, while only 4% are wild mammals.

🧵 Thread

#wildlife #biodiversity #climatecrisis
theplanet.substack.com/p/humans-only-…

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Stop WWF's New Deal For Nature 🦉

@nodealfornature

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1396058911325790208

The same entities seeking to grab lands from self-sufficient peoples in the Global South, '#ForNature', are also pushing non-animal sourced diets.

To understand the importance of animal source foods, check out this project: aleph-2020.blogspot.com

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1396058911325790208

Speaker at XR Animal Rebellion event today: "Avoiding eating meat, dairy, eggs, and fish is the single best thing a person can do to eradicate their impact on the environment [...], and to biodiversity as a whole."

And destroy self-sufficiency?! Mad!

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1220696092532187136

Why not just advocate genocide altogether, and be done with it?

Fewer humans, less impact on the environment...

Why not help create the kind of world sought by #NewDealForNature influencers and overpopulation advocates Attenborough and Goodall?

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1220696092532187136

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David Ritter

@David_Ritter

@UNESCO

As @UNESCO decides whether the Great Barrier Reef is world heritage in danger, it’s crucial to understand the history of the failure of Australian politicians to protect the Reef. Weirdly, it all began with a beautiful promise. A thread: #auspol #ForNature

In 1981 the Great Barrier Reef was declared as World Heritage under UNESCO, and Australia promised the world that “to the utmost of its resources” our nation would “do all it can” to protect the Reef: whc.unesco.org/en/conventiont…

It is important to remember that the Fraser Coalition Government chose to nominate the Great Barrier Reef - and the achievement of World Heritage status was something that we were proud of as a nation. Of course we would protect the Reef!

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David Ritter

@David_Ritter

@ScottMorrison

Hey @ScottMorrison this week your ministers said they were “stunned” & “blindsided” by UNESCO saying that the #GreatBarrierReef should be listed as in danger. Why? Here's a sample of 15 expert warnings in the last 5 years about the mortal threat to the Reef from #climatechange.

In early 2016, the first of recent mass bleaching events occurred in the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists estimated 22% of coral was killed, clearly linked this to climate change and noted the need for urgent action to counter impacts. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Also in 2016, the UN released a major report on climate change with a key chapter focussing on the Great Barrier Reef. (You might remember that the government intervened prior to its release, objecting that the information would harm tourism).
theguardian.com/environment/20…

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The Lagos State Govt

@followlasg

Bello said the theme for this Year's celebration "We are part of the solution #ForNature" aligns perfectly with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 14 (Life under Water) and 15 (Life on Land)

that about 20% of the animal protein diet for close to 3 billion people worldwide is gotten from fish, while 80% of human diets is from plants.

He noted that the need by property developers to acquire land for housing developments in the State has led to the destruction of many wetlands and forest ecosystems, which serve as habitats for a considerable percentage of the State's biodiversity.
#LASG #ForAGreaterLagos

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EU Environment

@EU_ENV

@UN

Special @UN #BiodiversityDay 🕷️

Ahead of the crucial #CoP15 this October,
🇪🇺 Commissioner @VSinkevicius launched
the 🌏 Coalition #UnitedforBiodiversity, calling on:
museums 🦋
zoos 🦘
aquariums 🐠
botanic gardens 🌼
national parks 🌲
to join forces #ForNature

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#BiodiversityDay

Since its launch on 3 March 2020, the 🌏 Coalition #UnitedforBiodiversity welcomed
41 organisations
253 institutions from 49 countries
🇫🇷 38
🇩🇪 34
🇪🇸 27
🇬🇧 17
🇧🇪 15
🇩🇰🇵🇹 10

All raise their voice #ForNature ahead of #CoP15
ec.europa.eu/environment/na…
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@IcomOfficiel

#BiodiversityDay

Thanks to the support of the International Council of Museums @IcomOfficiel, all world museums are also invited to join the 🌍 Coalition #UnitedforBiodiversity, to show the importance of nature for humanity ahead of #CoP15

ec.europa.eu/environment/ne…

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

@WeDontHaveTime

The scaly-foot snail is one of Earth’s strangest creatures. It lives more than 2,300 metres below the surface of the sea on a trio of deep-sea hydro thermal vents at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. #climateaction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

@WeDontHaveTime

Here it has evolved a remarkable form of protection against the crushing, grim conditions found at these Stygian depths. It grows a shell made of iron. Discovered in 1999, the multi-layered iron sulphide armour of Chrysomallon squamiferum #climateaction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

@WeDontHaveTime

– which measures a few centimetres in diameter – has already attracted the interest of the US defense department, whose scientists are now studying its genes in a bid to discover how it grows its own metal armour. @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

THREAD
Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources😡
Rollback of clean water protections for streams and wetlands😡
Obama-era rules have long been targeted by Trump😡

The Trump administration has completed its rollback of environmental protections for streams, wetland and other bodies of water, a process that has stripped pollution safeguards from drinking water sources used by around a third of all Americans.

@WeDontHaveTime

Clean water protections strengthened under the Obama administration have long been targeted by Donald Trump, who has called it a “very destructive and horrible rule”. #climateaction @WeDontHaveTime #fornature

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WCS

@TheWCS

@sslieberman

COMMENTARY: If we are to minimize species loss and collapse in ecosystem function, we must do all we can to support Indigenous Peoples’ rights & their efforts to protect their lands & waters, write WCS’s David Wilkie, @sslieberman, & @cyclonewatson. 1/10

news.mongabay.com/2020/09/protec…

Why? Decisions Indigenous Peoples have made over generations have done more to protect species and ecological systems than all the protected areas established and managed by individual countries combined. bit.ly/2SbAIAq

Today, it’s estimated that 36% of remaining intact forests lie within Indigenous Peoples lands. Further reason we are working with these groups today at #NatureForLife on #LocalAction and every day. wcs.org/nature-for-lif… #ForNature #ClimateChange

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

"They have exposed our societies to diseases for which no immunity has yet developed."
Errr... we need to have encountered a disease in order to have had the opportunity to develop immunity to it.

So this does not make the emergence of new pathogens by this route any different to the emergence by any other route even though it may well be accelerating the rate of emergence of new pathogens

I also have a problem with the idea that simply coming into contact with more species is really that significant except perhaps because we have been living in man made protected zones with very little contact with wildlife for some time.

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

@WeDontHaveTime

Deer found dead in Thailand with plastic bags and underwear in stomach🖤😔😢😢
The animal had 7kg of rubbish in its stomach including coffee grounds, noodle packaging and towels #ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

A deer has been found dead in Thailand after swallowing 7kg (15lb) of plastic bags and other rubbish, raising the alarm on littering in the country’s waters and forests.

The south-east Asian country is one of the world’s largest consumers of plastic,

with Thais using up to 3,000 single-use plastic bags each per year, whether for wrapping street food, takeaway coffee or packing groceries.Marine animals like turtles and dugongs have died in its waste-choked waters,

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

Indian Country fights against more fracking🤨Families living in rural areas south-west of Counselor, New Mexico, were telling him they saw sickly bull snakes and near-death rattlers above ground during the snowy, winter months of the south

Sage, the administrator at the Counselor Chapter House, a Navajo local government center, was incredulous.

“In February? There’s no snakes in February,” he said.

@WeDontHaveTime

Sage had a theory for what was happening: underground vibrations from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, forced the snakes from their dens and on to the surface.#ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

It seems to me that the current "controls" on money printing are working well enough. We have a fiat currency and therefore we can print as much as we like, but Zimbabwe showed what can go wrong. #coronavirus #ClimateAction #ForNature

Provided it is used sparingly, for crises, it is a viable lifeboat.
I believe that, for an "act of God" crisis, such as our present pandemic, there are no moral turpitude issues and therefore we should print whatever it takes to get us through.

The American Fed has already printed $4 trillion. I also believe that when the pandemic is properly over we should - with international agreement - write-off this extra debt as if the pandemic never existed: a bad-bank would be a suitable way forward.#UniversalBasicIncome

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

"To build a fairer, greener society, money must be made to serve the people, not the other way #coronavirus #ClimateAction #ForNature

With governments and banksters basically being the same motley outfit, is it strange the system seems running on its last legs? And that the chasm between highest and lowest earners is back to record levels, on a par with the 19th century?#ClimateAction #ForNature

We must work towards fair distribution of entitlement to the earth's purchasable goods. Clinging to gold, once thought to have intrinsic value because it came from the sun, looks to me to be an embarrassing step backwards in evolutionary time.#ClimateAction #VoteBlue

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Tuana

@TuanaTang

Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record w a reading of 18.3C
A new record set so soon after the previous record of 17.5C in March 2015 is a sign warming in Antarctica is happening much faster than global average

wmo asu edu/content/antarctica-highest-temperature-continent

@WeDontHaveTime

The reading, taken at Esperanza on the northern tip of the continent’s peninsula, beats Antarctica’s previous record of 17.5C, set in March 2015.
@WeDontHaveTime #ClimateAction #fornature @JohnKerry

@WeDontHaveTime

A tweet from Argentina’s meteorological agency on Friday revealed the record. The station’s data goes back to 1961.@WeDontHaveTime #ClimateAction #fornature @JohnKerry

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Nat’s Pancreas 404 #Masks4All

@1derfultype

@Type1EU

3️⃣0️⃣ days worth of waste 🌍🌏🌎

Raising awareness with @Type1EU on the amount of waste type 1 supplies can produce. #DiabetesTech saves our lives every day but it breaks my 💔 to see the large amount of waste they produce.

#ReduceDiabetesTechnologyWaste
#Type1EU