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🚨 Critically endangered but not beyond help. With growing population decline, saving these creatures is a race against time. The decline of pangolins is a stark reminder of the impacts of #WildlifeTrafficking and habitat destruction. We must act now to reverse this trend and ensure their survival.

From climate impacts to biodiversity loss, the Caribbean is navigating a growing polycrisis. Watch as participants of the Second BES-Net Caribbean Regional Trialogue reflect on bridging evidence and action, from ecosystem assessments to inclusive, science-based decision making.

🛡️ Your risk register might track pandemics and energy shocks, but does it name ecosystem collapse? A recent UK security assessment links biodiversity loss to pressure on food, water, health and supply chains, using a “reasonable worst case” lens. Learn more. ⤵️

🌍 The money story is upside down: $220bn goes to protecting nature, while $7.3tn a year supports activities that damage it – about a 30:1 ratio. Most harm funding is private, but nature finance is mostly public. Learn more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166809

🌍 Turning drylands green takes patience, knowledge and local leadership. In Kazakhstan, a master falconer is working with rural communities to restore degraded land and revive natural springs, showing how local action can drive environmental recovery. Learn more: go.undp.org/53S

Looking ahead means thinking beyond today. 🌱 Hear from participants at the recent BES-Net’s Second Caribbean Regional Trialogue about caring for nature and safeguarding the Caribbean’s ecosystems for generations to come. 👇 https://youtu.be/aSytuIAhuWw

🌍 What does it take to keep @ipbes.net knowledge alive beyond the moment of adoption? At #IPBES12, we joined conversations on post-assessment uptake, heard practical country examples and met with delegates to understand priorities and constraints. Read our recap: www.besnet.world/advancing-th...

🔖 Biodiversity decisions start long before a policy meeting; they start with who sets the research agenda. That is why #WomenInScience matters. When women are supported to lead, publish and shape the evidence, the decisions that follow get stronger. See why. ⤵️

Today, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Closing the gender gap is not just inspiration, it is systems: mentoring that lasts, funding criteria that reward inclusion, and leadership pathways that open doors. Better systems, better science for nature. 🌿

🌱💲 Putting a price tag on nature is not the point. The bigger question is who gets to define value in the first place. Learn more about plural valuation and why making space for different worldviews changes the quality of decisions. 🔗 www.besnet.world/expert-of-th...

🔔 New from @IPBES.net, the Business and Biodiversity Assessment, Summary for Policymakers is out. Clear message, nature is a core business dependency and a core business impact. 🔗 Read the report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

🔔 Three days, seven countries, one goal: move @IPBES.net knowledge towards action. Read about the Second Caribbean Regional Trialogue and the Action Document now taking shape. ⤵️ https://www.besnet.world/second-caribbean-regional-trialogue-planting-and-nurturing-the-seeds-of-ipbes-informed-action/

The newest issue of the BES-Net newsletter features: 👥National and regional Trialogues 🌟The NBSAP Accelerator Partnership 2025 Year in Review 🪸 A look ahead to #IPBES12 and the #BizBiodiversity Assessment 👇 Read all the stories of collaboration. 👇 https://www.besnet.world/newsletter-3/

Every reef has its defenders, and a lot of them are women. This feature takes you inside the University of Guam Marine Laboratory and the pathways, mentorship and community knowledge that help women lead in marine science. Read the full story.

✨ IPBES 12 opened in Manchester with a joint message delivered by Kaveh Zahedi (FAO) on behalf of the four UN partners to IPBES, @FAO.org, @UNEP.org, @UNDP.org and @UNESCO.org: strong partnerships make strong evidence count in the places where it matters most. ✨

🔔 #IPBES12 kicks off today in Manchester, UK. 🇬🇧 Members and experts will dive into how business depends on biodiversity and how it affects nature’s contributions to people. Watch the opening ceremony: https://youtube.com/live/ouY6pnn6T84

🌿 Stakeholder Day at #IPBES12 included a panel on what happens after assessments are released and how findings translate into policies, actions and follow-up processes at national, regional and global levels. The uptake examples reflected on the value of support networks like BES-Net. 🌍

⏳ Tomorrow, #IPBES12 begins in Manchester, UK! Over 6 days, representatives of >150 member Governments will consider for approval the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report. 👉 Follow us for live updates as science meets policy and evidence meets action. Learn more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

Real impact grows through connection. 🌱 At #IPBES12 #StakeholderDay, BES-Net highlights how @IPBES.net knowledge is moving across levels and contexts, taking root in dialogue, policy and practice. Learn how uptake becomes impact. 👇

3️⃣ days to #IPBES12! ⏱️ In the final stretch, attention turns to what will be considered, how it will be framed, and what it could unlock for policy and practice on biodiversity and ecosystem services.🐝

What is the hidden line item behind growth, resilience and supply chains? Biodiversity. 🍃 UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo’s message is a sharp prompt to make dependencies visible, as the #BizBiodiversity report moves through #IPBES12. 🌊

📌 Carbon has a common unit, biodiversity doesn’t; and that makes progress harder to compare. The upcoming IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment arrives at exactly the right moment for clearer methods and signals.

📌 In our latest #ExpertCorner, Fern Wickson, Coordinating Lead Author of the @IPBES.net #TransformativeChange Assessment, explores what “transformative change” actually demands and why Caribbean collaboration matters after the meeting ends. Watch the interview. ⤵️ https://youtu.be/hWLHzYNlVCE

Why measure impacts & dependencies of business on nature? 🧪 🌍 🎧 Listen: Ep6 of #NatureInsight with two @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity Co-Chairs Ximena Rueda + Matt Jones about the Report being considered at #IPBES12 in Manchester next week. 🏡

When biodiversity data stays in PDFs, nothing changes. @IPBES.net is where evidence gets shaped into messages that decision-makers can actually act on. Learn more ahead of the twelfth session of the IPBES Plenary. ⤵️ #IPBES12

When a nation weaves its own ecological story into action, the results reach beyond borders. 🌱 Grenada joins the #BESsolutionFund, unlocking support for restoration, mangrove protection and knowledge-sharing that strengthens both people and nature. Learn more:

⏳ One week to #IPBES12. The big question is not whether biodiversity matters; it’s how evidence turns into decisions people actually live with. Manchester is where that translation happens. 🌍

🪸 Nature does not stop at borders, and neither do its stories, species or challenges. This moment from the Caribbean Trialogue reflects a growing sense of shared responsibility and the possibility of tackling biodiversity loss together. 🤝

The Business and Biodiversity Assessment looks at how economic activities both depend on and affect biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. Which aspect are you most curious about? 👀 More info about the #BizBiodiversity report set for approval at #IPBES12: ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

🌿 The @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment is coming, built for the moment when “nature-positive” needs receipts, not slogans. Keep an eye out for the launch. ✅

🏢🌳 Business and biodiversity are linked through both dependencies and impacts. The upcoming @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment will strengthen the knowledge base to understand and account for these dependencies.

⏳ 14 days to #IPBES12🌍 #DYK ? The IPBES#IPBES12🌍#DYK#BizBiodiversity Assessment will strengthen efforts to meet the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets, helping the world achieve the goal of living in harmony with nature by 2050.🏡 🇬🇧 Manchester, UK 📅 3–8 February 2026 🧪Updates coming soon!

📌 IPBES 12 lands in Manchester from 3 to 8 February 2026, bringing governments and experts together to sharpen the science-policy bridge for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Follow along with BES-Net as we unpack what’s coming and why it matters! 🌿

🌿 Some roots are invisible, but they hold everything up. 🌳 This visual invites reflection on how biodiversity is shaped by knowledge we often fail to see and why recognizing all contributions matters for nature’s future.

🌱 Trialogues are not about presenting findings. They are about working with them. This insight captures why BES-Net Trialogues are uniquely positioned to support #TransformativeChange by grounding global assessments in local realities and shared action.

Nature supports economies in quiet ways: pollination, water regulation, coastal protection, soil health. #IPBES12 is part of making those links visible in decisions. 🌍 Learn more ahead of the event in Manchester, UK. 🇬🇧

What image or feeling comes to mind when you think about the Caribbean’s natural environment? 🌴 Participants at BES-Net’s Second Caribbean Regional Trialogue share their first thoughts on nature in the region. ▶️ Watch their reflections. 👇 https://youtu.be/FJtMaJ1UaZg

📌 Last year, #COP30 accelerated global climate action. This brief builds on that progress, using #NexusAssessment insights to show how climate decisions can deliver benefits for biodiversity, food, water and health together – now and into the future. www.besnet.world/library/time...

⏳ 21 days to #IPBES12 The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment brings together leading experts to provide governments, businesses & the financial sector with the critical information needed to measure dependencies and impacts on nature and take action.🌍🧪 📅 #IPBES12: 3–8 Feb 2026, Manchester, UK

🌍 BES-Net is looking for online volunteers from Europe and Central Asia to support country-level research on biodiversity and climate for a 2026 regional Trialogue. A great opportunity to engage with IPBES and IPCC-related processes. Apply here: https://app.unv.org/opportunities/1784888021266160

🌱 #Indigenous women’s knowledge is not a gap to be filled by science. It is a system in its own right. Discover what becomes possible when biodiversity action recognizes that fact and what keeps being missed when it does not. 👇 www.besnet.world/opening-wind...

#DidYouKnow that BES-Net’s work includes: 📈 Translating #IPBES insights into action 🤝 Fostering global collaboration 👥 Providing spaces for inclusive dialogue 📑 Supporting policy transformation See how we’re helping turn knowledge into global conservation successes. 👇

🐆🐠 A year of Trialogues, new partnerships, and knowledge that actually moved. See the 2025 highlights, – from Namibia to the Caribbean, – and the stories that kept us grounded. Read the full December issue of the BES-Net newsletter. 👇 https://www.besnet.world/newsletter-3

Wetland projects often track species, water flows and land use but miss a major driver of real outcomes: how responsibilities, knowledge and decision-making are shared within the community. 🧕👩 When gender is part of the picture, the system looks very different. See how. 👇

Myths vs facts! Are we tackling environmental challenges the right way? 🚨 The #IPBES #NexusAssessment busts common misconceptions and reveals what really works for biodiversity and sustainability. 💡 📊 Get the facts. Check out our new visual! 👇

Biodiversity loss and health are deeply connected. Tackling them together is essential for life. The cost of inaction? Pandemics, polluted air and collapsing food systems. Integrated solutions are vital for a safe future. 🌍

2025 #YearInReview | Can deforestation-free trade protect forests without harming agroforestry? This analysis looks at how simplified forest definitions and mapping risk unintended impacts on smallholders. Read the story: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pX9fRn #YearInReview #Trees4Resilience

🌿 The #HumanRight to a healthy environment is about protecting life in all its forms. 🌳🐞 Discover how we can work hand in hand with rights-holders to ensure the well-being of nature and the diverse communities that call it home. 👇

Happy New Year from BES-Net! 🌟 As the year begins, we carry forward our shared commitment to people and nature – and the futures we are shaping together. Wishing you a hopeful and impactful 2026!