🔖 The numbers tell a story, but not the whole one.
Each bat species represents a set of ecological relationships, from forests to farms to food systems. As pressures grow, what is at stake is not just species loss, but the stability of these connections. 🌱
Explore the bigger picture. 🦇
🦇 Most of their work happens at night and goes largely unnoticed.
Bats help keep ecosystems functioning in ways that ripple into food systems, forests and livelihoods. Their loss would not be subtle. 🌿
Take a closer look at why they matter. 👇
Join @ipbes.net for an online global dialogue on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment report and the use of IPBES products in policymaking.
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏰ 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CEST
🔗 Register here to participate: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/buqUL-S...
🇩🇴 A big step forward in the Dominican Republic!
On 17 March 2026, the country validated its national ecosystem assessment after months of dialogue. 🎉
Next comes finalizing the technical report and preparing the Summary for Policymakers.
This is where the work begins to translate into action.
The @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment highlights the many actions governments can take to help create an enabling environment that aligns business incentives with biodiversity outcomes.
Explore 100+ actions for all actors in the new report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
🇦🇲 Armenia is the 13th country to join the BES Solution Fund!
What does this milestone mean in practice?
It means support for NBSAPs, connecting national experts with IPBES assessments and testing approaches for ecosystem restoration and land-use planning.
More: www.besnet.world/armenia-beco...
📢 Starting today, an online summit is exploring how clothing systems can be rethought through regenerative design.
Be part of the conversation with daily themes including soil and agriculture, ecosystems and supply chains, ways of being and connection to place. ⬇️
www.eileenfisherfoundation.org
Big change often starts with a few determined people.
🌊 The @unep.org #EarthChamps award is seeking those protecting and restoring our ocean in ways that shift systems.
Know someone making waves? Nominate them!
👉 www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
⏳ Happening soon: the NEA Initiative at @unepwcmc.bsky.social
upcoming webinar.
Hear directly from countries like Botswana, Grenada and Thailand on how ecosystem assessments are shaping national plans, policies and on-the-ground action.
🗓️ 15 April
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The future of plant science is taking root.
Join global experts, innovators and changemakers at the Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology in Rome or online, exploring genomics, biotechnology and sustainable agriculture.
plant-science-biology-conferences.magnusgroup.org/
10 facts, one country: Cameroon. 🇨🇲
There's a lot more going on than you might expect!
From forests to coastlines, this listicle breaks down the scale and richness of life across this biodiversity giant.
Explore more here: www.besnet.world/10-facts-tha...
Congratulations to Botswana on validating its national ecosystem assessment. 👏
This assessment strengthens:
✔️ Policy-relevant evidence
✔️ Understanding of knowledge gaps
✔️ A foundation for sustainable biodiversity management and human well-being
A milestone worth celebrating. 🎉
🌿 Not all values of nature fit into prices or markets. Many are rooted in relationships, responsibilities and identity.
Local traditional communities offer ways of understanding nature that expand how we think about value and decision-making.
Explore the perspectives behind these approaches. 👇
The platform makes country submissions to the CBD, UNFCCC and UNCCD searchable, so users can explore how biodiversity, climate and land issues connect through themes like targets, subsidies, spatial planning and finance.
🔎 Try it here: app.climatepolicyradar.org/rio-submissi...
🌍 A lot of the most useful policy detail is buried in long documents.
The Rio Policy Radar helps surface it.
We keep organizing government as if nature operated in departments. It does not. Siloes weaken responses to interconnected crises.
Donovan Campbell, Lead Author of the #NexusAssessment, explains how “nexus thinking” strengthens health, food, climate and biodiversity responses.
The latest BES-Net Blast is out!
Highlights include:
🔖 #BESsolutionFund updates
💻 Online events from @ipbes.net & @unepwcmc.bsky.social, Biodiversa+ and more
📑 Courses and training from the Conservation Strategy Fund & Finance 4 Nature
Read the full issue: https://www.besnet.world/newsletter-3
👩🔬 Investing in women is often framed as social policy. In rural economies, it’s an economic strategy.
When women have access to finance, land and decision-making, productivity rises, and communities become more resilient.
Read more from @ifad.org:
www.ifad.org/en/w/rural-v...
Join @ipbes.net for an online global dialogue on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment report and the use of IPBES products in policymaking.
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏰ 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CEST
🔗 Register here to participate: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/buqUL-S...
🌍 Namibia is putting a price tag on nature and backing it with a plan.
Its new biodiversity strategy ties ecosystems to budgets, decisions and delivery. BES-Net helped strengthen the indicators and reporting behind it, so progress can actually be tracked.
Take a look:
www.undp.org/namibia/blog...
Declared extinct in the UK decades ago, the large tortoiseshell butterfly has quietly returned.
After years of absence, sightings suggest this striking species may once again be part of Britain’s landscapes. Nature’s stories are not always endings.
Read more:
🌳 Why do forest goals stall after the press release?
This piece by @cifor-icraf.org explores what happens when forest, agriculture, trade and finance policies do not align – smallholders pay the price.
Read the full feature: www.forestsnews.org/156248/coord...
🌳 Biodiversity work is bigger than one job title – and one kind of person.
Policy, community action, restoration, communications: each is a real pathway into action, especially for young people looking to make a difference. Biodiversity needs all of them. 🦋
Explore some pathways below. ⤵️
🔖 This #ExpertCorner goes beyond standard conservation talking points.
Calvin Bernard, Director of IMAREE at the University of Guyana, shares a grounded perspective on conservation shaped by personal experience, participatory management and traditional knowledge.
Watch more. ⤵️
youtu.be/hMVQzhUOcAw
Ecosystem assessments are moving beyond reports, shaping national priorities and informing policy choices.
The NEA Initiative at @unepwcmc.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to explore what it takes to make that shift happen.
🗓️ Join the event on 15 April.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At dawn on Jeju Island, women slip beneath the waves without oxygen tanks, relying on breath and memory to harvest the sea.
The haenyeo are fishers, mothers and guardians of marine ecosystems. Their way of life is changing, but their ethic of care endures.
www.fao.org/newsroom/sto...
📌 Help move the Business and Biodiversity Assessment from “launched” to “used”.
@ipbes.net is inviting contributions for real-world uptake, including guidance, workshops, training and fact sheets that translate options into action.
See how you can contribute: https://www.ipbes.net/node/97631
🧭 One broken link can disrupt an entire migration.
That is why #CMSCOP15’s focus on protecting, connecting and restoring habitats matters so much.
Conservation that ignores connectivity misses how migratory species actually live, move and survive. 🌍
🌍 Transformative change is often described through new systems, new tools and new ideas. But traditional and local knowledge also carries ways of governing, caring for and living with ecosystems that remain deeply relevant today.
Some pathways to change have been here all along. 📌
What does it take to move from global biodiversity dialogue to real-world impact?
💡 Axel Eriksson reflects on what it takes: ❤️ heart, 🧠 head, ✋ hands.
A perspective grounded in research and lived experience.
Read and reflect: www.besnet.world/from-ipbes-1...
