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You can help Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners design the tools and platforms needed to empower #GenerationRestoration! Take a survey to help identify what and whose capacities need to be enhanced to achieve the goals of the United Nations Decade on #EcosystemRestoration. Info:... https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/take-survey See more

COMING UP: A youth dialogue on the environmental impacts of #COVID19 Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema will discuss COVID-19's impact on #environment, #biodiversity and health at the #YouthEnvironmentAssembly. 20 Feb. at 2 p.m. UTC... Info: https://www.youthenvironment.org/yea Via UNEP Major Group of Children & Youth and Major Group for Children and Youth

The fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) will bring together world leaders, scientists, businesses and civil society to address global environmental challenges. Sveinung Rotevatn of #Norway, the President of #UNEA5, outlines thoughts and aspirations for the virtual session. #ForNature Via UN Environment Programme

"We must consider the ecological changes associated with these climate changes at both a continental and regional scale if we want to have a proper understanding of what drove these extinctions." The "overkill hypothesis" has been the leading theory to explain the #extinction of North America's #megafauna around 13,000 years ago, but new research by Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History indicates that it may have been #ClimateChange. Learn more via Forbes

Around the world, local and national governments are creating "#wildlife corridors" to safeguard #biodiversity and allow animals to roam free. World Economic Forum spotlights 5 of these initiatives #ForNature. Learn more: https://bit.ly/39GSN3t

Sheltering sea life Supporting people Providing medicine And more!... World Economic Forum offers 5 reasons why #CoralReefs are essential #ForNature and people and shows why we must protect these vital #ecosystems. Learn more: https://wef.ch/36JHbZC