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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 16h

The BESPIN post-Trialogue webinar will revisit the May 2026 regional Trialogue in Skopje and explore how biodiversity and climate knowledge is being applied across Europe and Central Asia. 📅 6 October | 10–11.30 a.m. CEST undp.zoom.us/meeting/register/Y-TLb…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 02/10/2026

In the Western Balkans, heritage and science are learning to speak the same language. 🌳📖 At UNESCO’s Sarajevo workshop, local herders, foresters and seed-keepers sat with researchers to share what centuries of observation reveal about the region’s changing ecosystems.

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 30/09/2026

🇲🇼 Through new BES Solution Fund support, Malawi’s ecosystem assessment findings will inform biodiversity governance, Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans III implementation. Read the story: www.besnet.world/story/malawi...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 29/09/2026

⚖️ Rights are the engine of #SustainableDevelopment, not an afterthought. Yet gender equality remains one of today’s deepest human rights gaps. Time is running out. 🚨 These 5️⃣ priority areas show where collective action can change course.

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 28/09/2026

🔔 Opportunity alert! @cabes.bsky.social is offering two free, interactive online courses aimed at building knowledge and sharing experiences for integrating biodiversity into decision-making processes. ⏰ 8:00-16:00 GMT ✅ Open to all Register to participate: elearning.cabes.online/course/view....

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 26/09/2026

🇰🇭 Cambodia’s first national ecosystem assessment is nearing completion. BES Solution Fund support will help make findings accessible in Khmer and strengthen biodiversity decision-making. Read how: www.besnet.world/story/cambod...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 25/09/2026

Indigenous fire stewardship has shaped biodiversity in many regions but was often reduced or excluded as management shifted to a single approach. Where cultural burning has returned, it has helped restore habitats and reduce wildfire risk. Learn more: www.weforum.org/stories/2021...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 25/09/2026

🇳🇦 In Namibia’s driest regions, Prosopis drains scarce groundwater and restricts access to grazing. But its biomass can become charcoal, timber or feed. See how BES-Net and @undpbiofin.bsky.social are helping ensure that use supports control without further spread: www.besnet.world/story/from-i...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 24/09/2026

📌 Tomorrow: hear how Botswana, Colombia and Malawi are using their national ecosystem assessments to put rights-holders at the centre of biodiversity and climate decisions. 📅 25 Sept ⏰ 2:00 p.m. UTC | 3:00 p.m. BST Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 24/09/2026

🇦🇲 Early signs from COP17 Week in Dilijan: local businesses are asking how to assess their own impacts and dependencies on nature. Through UNDP Armenia, BES-Net is supporting the initiative through programme design, training and facilitation ahead of #COP17Armenia. 🌍

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 23/09/2026

A year on from the ICJ's climate obligations opinion, @unep.org finds Just Transition becoming real law across dozens of countries. And it wants traditional knowledge protected with the same legal weight: real protocols, real benefit-sharing. Read the recommendations: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 22/09/2026

La perte de biodiversité et les changements climatiques sont aussi des enjeux liés aux droits humains. Le 25 septembre, découvrez comment le Botswana, la Colombie et le Malawi appliquent l’approche fondée sur les droits humains grâce aux évaluations des écosystèmes. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 22/09/2026

La pérdida de biodiversidad y el cambio climático también son desafíos para los derechos humanos. El 25 de septiembre, descubre cómo Botswana, Colombia y Malawi aplican el Enfoque Basado en los Derechos Humanos mediante evaluaciones de los ecosistemas. Regístrese: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 19/09/2026

🇨🇷 Costa Rica's biodiversity strategy named Indigenous priorities on paper. The Raíces programme turned that into practice, backing tourism ventures across seven territories, from Térraba to the Caribbean coast. Read it here: stories.undp.org/costa-rica-w...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 18/09/2026

What is living heritage? Not a record of what communities once did. Not a tradition protected by keeping it unchanged. It is knowledge that stays alive through practice, adaptation and relationships with place. Learn more: ich.unesco.org/en/indigenous-peoples

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 17/09/2026

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 16/09/2026

Biodiversity action needs a clear path from evidence to implementation. Valuing nature informs decisions. Aligned finance supports better choices. Policy, capacity and inclusive governance turn them into results on the ground. Explore the three connected shifts. ⬇️

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 15/09/2026

Women help keep ocean economies moving, but much of their work remains invisible in data and their voices underrepresented in decision-making. The Third World Ocean Assessment shows why healthier oceans need women’s knowledge, leadership and power. Explore the evidence: woa.un.org/third-world-...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 14/09/2026

New research funding will focus on drivers of biodiversity loss in the Amazon, Congo Basin and Coral Triangle. @gcbcbiodiversity.bsky.social's fourth research call draws on the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment. Applications are expected to open on 19 October.

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 12/09/2026

The ocean is both climate infrastructure and biodiversity habitat. It stores carbon, absorbs heat, carries species across borders and feeds communities. With two thirds of the ocean under a global framework, the next step is making protection work where currents, species and risks move. #SDG14

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 11/09/2026

🏔️ A landscape without formal state management is not necessarily ungoverned. Customary institutions may already regulate access, responsibilities, resource use and disputes through rules grounded in a community and its territory. ✅ Recognizing that authority belongs in conservation planning.

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 10/09/2026

Where are the biggest knowledge gaps on business and biodiversity? Join @ipbes.net on 7 Oct to hear from Business & Biodiversity Assessment experts, explore its updated knowledge-gaps database and discuss research priorities. Register by 6 Oct: www.ipbes.net/node/110147

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 08/09/2026

Three national ecosystem assessments document a shared pattern: the same women managing biodiversity knowledge face compounding threats from climate shocks, extractive activity and violence linked to environmental conflict. See the findings & recommendations from Colombia, Viet Nam and Grenada. ⤵️

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 07/09/2026

Co-production requires more than bringing knowledge systems together. @ipbes.net distinguishes among Indigenous and local knowledge holders, experts from those communities and outside experts who study that knowledge. Learn more: www.ipbes.net/indigenous-local-know…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 05/09/2026

🌍 Environmental decline does not stay in forests or rivers. It shows up in clinics, kitchens and city streets. If we want healthier societies, we need healthier ecosystems. 🌿 Explore why prevention starts with nature. ⤵️

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 04/09/2026

Armenia is building biodiversity evidence from the ground up. Eco-patrols are creating a searchable species record for Norashen Reserve, while students and researchers are learning to digitize observations and map biodiversity data. Read the story: www.besnet.world/story/buildi...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 04/09/2026

🗣️ Languages, practices and knowledge systems can carry generations of ecological understanding. Biocultural diversity recognizes that cultural diversity and biodiversity are closely connected, and that the loss of one can weaken the other. These relationships shape biodiversity governance. 🌍

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 03/09/2026

Biodiversity loss and climate change are human rights challenges too. Join us on 25 Sept for a look at how Botswana, Colombia and Malawi use ecosystem assessments to put the Human Rights-Based Approach into practice. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 02/09/2026

📌 Six exercises, one goal: make gender roles in farming households visible enough to change. @landalliance.bsky.social, with @awf-official.bsky.social and @FAO.org, built the toolkit and tested it in two counties in Kenya. See the impact: www.landscapealliance.org/knowledge/pu...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 01/09/2026

Our fourth ILK special issue newsletter is here, and it's packed! ✅ Four new national ecosystem assessments, rooted in ILK ✅ New national outlooks for Malawi, Namibia and Trinidad and Tobago ✅ New HRBA compendium case study publications Read lots more inside. ⬇️ besnet.world/newsletter-3

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 01/09/2026

🌿 Valuing nature changes decisions. 💰Aligning finance changes what becomes viable. ⚙️ Implementation changes outcomes. Together, these three shifts can move biodiversity commitments from recognition to action for people and planet. #NatureIsEverybodysBusiness #ValueItFinanceItPracticeIt

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 29/08/2026

💰 The financial system has already chosen its winners, and most of them aren't biodiversity-friendly. New conservation funding helps, but it's working against the decisions banks, insurers and investors are making elsewhere. Changing that matters more. 🍃 #ValueItFinanceItPracticeIt #NaturePledge

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 28/08/2026

Prior informed consent addresses whether access to genetic resources or associated traditional knowledge may take place. Benefit-sharing addresses what follows: ensuring that the benefits arising from their use are shared fairly and equitably.

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 28/08/2026

Applications are open for a fully funded Erasmus+ youth exchange hosted at Osada.Earth, an intentional community in northwest Poland, from 11 to 23 September 2026. Open to participants ages 18–30 from Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Hungary and Serbia. Find out more: www.erasmuser.com/2026/06/10/g...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 27/08/2026

Change the farm. Change the market. Change the policy. But what about the thinking behind them? 🌱 The Global Conscious Food Systems Summit comes to Bhutan, 31 August to 4 September, to explore what shapes food systems change. Follow the Summit: consciousfoodsystems.org/bhutan-sum…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 26/08/2026

According to the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment, whether nature is protected or depleted depends largely on policy and finance, not goodwill. In our latest feature with @undpbiofin.bsky.social, we break down what this means for decision-makers. ⬇️ Check it out: www.besnet.world/nature-is-ev...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 25/08/2026

🌱 Healthy rangelands depend on seeing who sustains them. When women’s work with livestock, water, forage and drought resilience is left out of data and policy, restoration efforts fall short. As #COP17Ulaanbaatar winds down, see why visibility matters for restoring land and hope. 👇

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 24/08/2026

A consultation can happen after the important choices are already made. FPIC sets a higher standard: Indigenous Peoples must have information, time and a genuine choice before activities affecting them or their territories move ahead. Consent can also be withheld or withdrawn. #IndigenousRights

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 24/08/2026

What lies ahead for Thailand’s oceans? Its national ecosystem assessment explores three possible futures to 2050, alongside evidence on coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass and coastal livelihoods. On 26 August, hear the findings and meet the assessment team: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 22/08/2026

🇺🇿 In Uzbekistan, land degradation is catching up to daily life. Deer entering farm fields as forests shrink. Birds affecting crops and fish ponds. Predators creating livestock losses for pastoralists. Restoration plans need this human context to work. Read more: iucn.org/blog/202510/...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 22/08/2026

Viet Nam's national forest payment scheme has channelled around US$650 million into conservation since 2011, proof that a beneficiary-pays model works at scale. Read how that logic is reaching a wetland and, supported by @undpbiofin.bsky.social, a marine reserve. www.besnet.world/story/in-vie...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 19/08/2026

🪸 Marine research, fisheries management, community-based conservation or policy: where could your skills take you? @cordioea.bsky.social welcomes internship applications year-round. See how to apply and explore work supporting coastal and ocean ecosystems: cordioea.net/careers

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 19/08/2026

🇨🇮 In Côte d'Ivoire, 700 young people were given responsibility, access to decision makers and a route into biodiversity policy. Training was only the start. Here’s what helped their ideas go further: www.besnet.world/story/more-than-a-…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 19/08/2026

A new UNESCO LINKS + CABES publication captures the lessons from their course on turning the principles of inclusive engagement into practical methods. Practical methods + African case studies of engaging Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Explore here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 18/08/2026

⚠️ Water shortages, declining soil health and damaged coastal ecosystems can quickly become production delays, rising costs and lost income. The condition of nature shapes the conditions businesses operate in. Our latest feature breaks down the risk. 👇 Read more: www.besnet.world/nature-is-ev...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 17/08/2026

The Dominican Republic has completed its national ecosystem assessment. It reveals: 116,680 ha of forest converted Mangroves shrinking ~70% of beaches showing erosion Tomorrow, hear what the findings mean for policy and planning: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 17/08/2026

A landscape can be mapped from space. But some of its history lives in memory. As #COP17Mongolia begins, see how communities in Botswana, Kazakhstan and Kenya are revealing how rangelands are changing and what recovery could look like: www.besnet.world/story/a-world-sust…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 15/08/2026

Forests and farms need each other. From pollinator support to climate and water regulation, a new report from @fao.org, @nature.org, @sei.org and @conservationorg.bsky.social show how services provided by forests and trees can strengthen #agrifood systems. Read it here: ow.ly/gePB50Xusrg

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 14/08/2026

The global target to conserve 30% of land, inland waters and oceans by 2030 also requires respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. That’s a human rights-based approach built into the target. Learn more: www.besnet.world/fostering-en...

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 13/08/2026

🌿 New to BES-Net? Start here! This two-page explainer maps the four connected ways we work, from national ecosystem assessments and Trialogues to the BES Solution Fund and a global network of 130+ organizations. 📄 See how the four parts of BES-Net fit together. 👇

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