🔴Starting soon at 9:30h:

#STOApanel with study presentations on:

✅Developing #PrimaryForests in western part of EU
✅Using #digital tools & #AI for citizen participation in EU policymaking

📺Watch live: link.europa.eu/YB7JN7

@linagalvez.eu @nicogcasares.bsky.social @josecepeda.bsky.social

Primary forests: ‘Allowing biodiversity to spread out again’ - ESMH “Primary forests can help the EU meet several of its objectives, including its targets under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the EU Forest Strategy

Next Thursday, @bartmuys.bsky.social & Bart Nyssen of #KULeuven will present their study on #PrimaryForests for the #STOAPanel in the #EUParliament

👉Interview B Nyssen on such forests in the western part of EU & potentially recreate them: wp.me/panTdn-4ws

@nicogcasares.bsky.social #Research4Policy

At #COP30’s Primary Forests at Risk event, the GEF CEO Carlos Manuel Rodriguez opened with a powerful reminder: “Our grandchildren will look back in disbelief that we once logged primary forests – just as we now look back at other historic injustices.”

#GEFatCOP30 #PrimaryForests #ActNow

Learn more about our work on forests 🌲 iucn.org/our-work/topic/forests

#Forests #Biodiversity #ClimateChange #PrimaryForests #IUCN

Today is #InternationalDayOfForests 🌳

Forests are the backbone of global food security and nutrition. Yet, these irreplaceable ecosystems are under threat.

The future of food begins in the forests. Let’s work together to keep them standing.

#PrimaryForests #FoodSecurity #ForestsAndFood #IUCN

Where are Europe’s last primary forests? The first map of Europe’s last primary forests, including more than 1.4 million hectares in 34 European countries has now been published.

Would be cool to have regular updates on distribution and status... more frequently than every 5 yrs like the FAO FRAs (global forest resources assessment).

Want to visit these beauties! 💚

#EFI
#PrimaryForests

efi.int/articles/whe...

Proud of the #Madagascar civil society at #COP29 that defended #PrimaryForests from 2 new roads! In the #PressConference, 59 NGOs detailed the threats to ecosystems, water, agriculture, hydro energy, tourism. #IMF is providing a $321 million #ClimateResilience loan, expected to fund these roads.

"Where are #Europe’s last #PrimaryForests?"

Really intersting study by @BiogeoBerlin‘s Francesco Maria Sabatini et al. in Diversity and Distributions:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.127...