Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net)
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The UNDP-managed Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net), supported by UNEP-WCMC and UNESCO, promotes dialogue between science, policy and practice to build capacity for the sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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🌱 Bold ideas, ancestral wisdom and science in motion. The new BES-Net Newsletter travels from Colombia to Nigeria to the Balkans, spotlighting people restoring balance between nature and humanity. 🌍💡
See how the world’s doing biodiversity differently: g0glk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
See how the world’s doing biodiversity differently: g0glk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
Let's build our global climate numeracy. 🔢
🌍 Climate change can feel abstract; numbers make it real.
Explore 30 facts that explain scale of the challenge and the opportunities for action: https://go.undp.org/ClimateCounts
##ClimateCounts | #COP30
🌍 Climate change can feel abstract; numbers make it real.
Explore 30 facts that explain scale of the challenge and the opportunities for action: https://go.undp.org/ClimateCounts
##ClimateCounts | #COP30
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Let's build our global climate numeracy. 🔢
🌍 Climate change can feel abstract; numbers make it real.
Explore 30 facts that explain scale of the challenge and the opportunities for action: https://go.undp.org/ClimateCounts
##ClimateCounts | #COP30
🌍 Climate change can feel abstract; numbers make it real.
Explore 30 facts that explain scale of the challenge and the opportunities for action: https://go.undp.org/ClimateCounts
##ClimateCounts | #COP30
🚀 Big news! #UNGA has confirmed Alexander De Croo as the new Administrator of @UNDP.org!
With wide experience in development cooperation, innovation and public leadership, he joins at a pivotal moment.
BES-Net warmly welcomes him and looks forward to advancing shared goals together. 🌱🌍🤝
With wide experience in development cooperation, innovation and public leadership, he joins at a pivotal moment.
BES-Net warmly welcomes him and looks forward to advancing shared goals together. 🌱🌍🤝
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
When multiple global crises collide–nature, climate, food, health–our response must go beyond “business as usual”.
Our new digital interactive explores why a true #TansformativeChange approach is critical now more than ever.
Discover the insights. Join the shift:
Our new digital interactive explores why a true #TansformativeChange approach is critical now more than ever.
Discover the insights. Join the shift:
The Need for Transformative Change in a Time of Polycrisis - BES Net
The IPBES Transformative Change Assessment shows how systemic shifts can tackle the root causes of biodiversity loss in a polycrisis.
www.besnet.world
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When multiple global crises collide–nature, climate, food, health–our response must go beyond “business as usual”.
Our new digital interactive explores why a true #TansformativeChange approach is critical now more than ever.
Discover the insights. Join the shift:
Our new digital interactive explores why a true #TansformativeChange approach is critical now more than ever.
Discover the insights. Join the shift:
🌳Sustainable agroforestry systems
🫧Climate resilient water management
🔥”Cultural burning” fire management
Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge and practices can offer many solutions to the climate crisis.
Learn why from @undp.org: https://go.undp.org/4m3
🫧Climate resilient water management
🔥”Cultural burning” fire management
Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge and practices can offer many solutions to the climate crisis.
Learn why from @undp.org: https://go.undp.org/4m3
Indigenous knowledge is crucial in the fight against climate change – here’s why | UNDP Climate Promise
Indigenous Peoples are custodians of unique knowledge and practices that can offer effective climate solutions. We explain how.
go.undp.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🌳Sustainable agroforestry systems
🫧Climate resilient water management
🔥”Cultural burning” fire management
Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge and practices can offer many solutions to the climate crisis.
Learn why from @undp.org: https://go.undp.org/4m3
🫧Climate resilient water management
🔥”Cultural burning” fire management
Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge and practices can offer many solutions to the climate crisis.
Learn why from @undp.org: https://go.undp.org/4m3
🌿 The researcher, the social worker, the lawyer, the educator and the social engineer – five youth redefining climate action through science, community and justice.
Their work proves ecosystems thrive when people do. 🏡🌱
Discover their impact ⬇️
Their work proves ecosystems thrive when people do. 🏡🌱
Discover their impact ⬇️
How 5 young leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean are driving climate solutions | UNDP Climate Promise
With determination and a deep sense of responsibility, young people are creating their own spaces to drive change in their communities.
climatepromise.undp.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🌿 The researcher, the social worker, the lawyer, the educator and the social engineer – five youth redefining climate action through science, community and justice.
Their work proves ecosystems thrive when people do. 🏡🌱
Discover their impact ⬇️
Their work proves ecosystems thrive when people do. 🏡🌱
Discover their impact ⬇️
The review for the IPBES monitoring assessment has officially started.
If you know where monitoring breaks down in practice, this is the moment to flag it.
Register to participate and join the online dialogues in early December: ipbes.net/monitoring-assessment/external-review/registration
If you know where monitoring breaks down in practice, this is the moment to flag it.
Register to participate and join the online dialogues in early December: ipbes.net/monitoring-assessment/external-review/registration
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The review for the IPBES monitoring assessment has officially started.
If you know where monitoring breaks down in practice, this is the moment to flag it.
Register to participate and join the online dialogues in early December: ipbes.net/monitoring-assessment/external-review/registration
If you know where monitoring breaks down in practice, this is the moment to flag it.
Register to participate and join the online dialogues in early December: ipbes.net/monitoring-assessment/external-review/registration
🔥 Displacement is rising in the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions, and women are disproportionately affected.
Read the latest report from @unhcr.org, highlighting both the rising risks and their role in leading practical, community-based climate solutions.
Read the latest report from @unhcr.org, highlighting both the rising risks and their role in leading practical, community-based climate solutions.
UNHCR report reveals extreme weather driving repeated displacement among conflict-affected communities | UNHCR
BELÉM, BRAZIL – Millions of refugees, people forced to flee, and their hosts are trapped in an increasingly vicious cycle of conflict and climate extremes, according to a new report released today by…
www.unhcr.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🔥 Displacement is rising in the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions, and women are disproportionately affected.
Read the latest report from @unhcr.org, highlighting both the rising risks and their role in leading practical, community-based climate solutions.
Read the latest report from @unhcr.org, highlighting both the rising risks and their role in leading practical, community-based climate solutions.
The Caribbean is joining forces for integrated action on biodiversity, water, food, health and climate.
From 2 to 4 Dec 2025, regional experts will co-design practical solutions for resilient futures.
Explore how this dialogue is shaping a more connected future: www.besnet.world/events/secon...
From 2 to 4 Dec 2025, regional experts will co-design practical solutions for resilient futures.
Explore how this dialogue is shaping a more connected future: www.besnet.world/events/secon...
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Caribbean is joining forces for integrated action on biodiversity, water, food, health and climate.
From 2 to 4 Dec 2025, regional experts will co-design practical solutions for resilient futures.
Explore how this dialogue is shaping a more connected future: www.besnet.world/events/secon...
From 2 to 4 Dec 2025, regional experts will co-design practical solutions for resilient futures.
Explore how this dialogue is shaping a more connected future: www.besnet.world/events/secon...
🌳 Want to understand how forests contribute to global climate goals?
@UNDP.org's PLANT offers visualized data on land use, emissions and climate targets, empowering you to take informed action.
🌍🌱 Start exploring today: http://go.undp.org/JDR
@UNDP.org's PLANT offers visualized data on land use, emissions and climate targets, empowering you to take informed action.
🌍🌱 Start exploring today: http://go.undp.org/JDR
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🌳 Want to understand how forests contribute to global climate goals?
@UNDP.org's PLANT offers visualized data on land use, emissions and climate targets, empowering you to take informed action.
🌍🌱 Start exploring today: http://go.undp.org/JDR
@UNDP.org's PLANT offers visualized data on land use, emissions and climate targets, empowering you to take informed action.
🌍🌱 Start exploring today: http://go.undp.org/JDR
🌱 Bold ideas, ancestral wisdom and science in motion. The new BES-Net Newsletter travels from Colombia to Nigeria to the Balkans, spotlighting people restoring balance between nature and humanity. 🌍💡
See how the world’s doing biodiversity differently: g0glk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
See how the world’s doing biodiversity differently: g0glk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🌱 Bold ideas, ancestral wisdom and science in motion. The new BES-Net Newsletter travels from Colombia to Nigeria to the Balkans, spotlighting people restoring balance between nature and humanity. 🌍💡
See how the world’s doing biodiversity differently: g0glk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
See how the world’s doing biodiversity differently: g0glk.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
The forests of Düzce, Türkiye, a new wave of young beekeepers is proving that biodiversity can fund livelihoods.
With @FAO.org’s training, they’re selling chestnut honey that carries a sense of place — and the resilience of the Yığılca bee.
Read more. ⬇️
With @FAO.org’s training, they’re selling chestnut honey that carries a sense of place — and the resilience of the Yığılca bee.
Read more. ⬇️
Buzz-worthy opportunities
Young beekeepers in Türkiye are turning hives into jobs and futures
www.fao.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The forests of Düzce, Türkiye, a new wave of young beekeepers is proving that biodiversity can fund livelihoods.
With @FAO.org’s training, they’re selling chestnut honey that carries a sense of place — and the resilience of the Yığılca bee.
Read more. ⬇️
With @FAO.org’s training, they’re selling chestnut honey that carries a sense of place — and the resilience of the Yığılca bee.
Read more. ⬇️
🔬Citizen science isn’t just a buzzword; it's transforming biodiversity conservation!
📆 This Friday, 14 Nov, join ecologists Corey T. Callaghan, Lena Dempewolf and Cierra Freese to discuss how ordinary citizens are filling crucial data gaps in biodiversity.
us06web.zoom.us/j/8341808438...
📆 This Friday, 14 Nov, join ecologists Corey T. Callaghan, Lena Dempewolf and Cierra Freese to discuss how ordinary citizens are filling crucial data gaps in biodiversity.
us06web.zoom.us/j/8341808438...
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🔬Citizen science isn’t just a buzzword; it's transforming biodiversity conservation!
📆 This Friday, 14 Nov, join ecologists Corey T. Callaghan, Lena Dempewolf and Cierra Freese to discuss how ordinary citizens are filling crucial data gaps in biodiversity.
us06web.zoom.us/j/8341808438...
📆 This Friday, 14 Nov, join ecologists Corey T. Callaghan, Lena Dempewolf and Cierra Freese to discuss how ordinary citizens are filling crucial data gaps in biodiversity.
us06web.zoom.us/j/8341808438...
Forests, rivers and oceans are connected systems – not separate worlds. 🌿
When those links break, life struggles to move, adapt and recover.
Restoring connectivity means restoring the pathways that make resilience possible, for nature and for us all. 🌍
Swipe to learn more. 👇
When those links break, life struggles to move, adapt and recover.
Restoring connectivity means restoring the pathways that make resilience possible, for nature and for us all. 🌍
Swipe to learn more. 👇
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Forests, rivers and oceans are connected systems – not separate worlds. 🌿
When those links break, life struggles to move, adapt and recover.
Restoring connectivity means restoring the pathways that make resilience possible, for nature and for us all. 🌍
Swipe to learn more. 👇
When those links break, life struggles to move, adapt and recover.
Restoring connectivity means restoring the pathways that make resilience possible, for nature and for us all. 🌍
Swipe to learn more. 👇
📢 The #WorldWildlifeDay 2026 Poster Contest is now open!
Artists are invited to visualize how conserving medicinal and aromatic plants link biodiversity, culture and well-being. 🌿
📅 Submit by 9 Nov 2025 (23:59 CET)
🔗 Info: cites.org/sites/defaul...
Artists are invited to visualize how conserving medicinal and aromatic plants link biodiversity, culture and well-being. 🌿
📅 Submit by 9 Nov 2025 (23:59 CET)
🔗 Info: cites.org/sites/defaul...
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📢 The #WorldWildlifeDay 2026 Poster Contest is now open!
Artists are invited to visualize how conserving medicinal and aromatic plants link biodiversity, culture and well-being. 🌿
📅 Submit by 9 Nov 2025 (23:59 CET)
🔗 Info: cites.org/sites/defaul...
Artists are invited to visualize how conserving medicinal and aromatic plants link biodiversity, culture and well-being. 🌿
📅 Submit by 9 Nov 2025 (23:59 CET)
🔗 Info: cites.org/sites/defaul...
As water returned to Tram Chim, life followed.
Farmers planted for fish as much as for rice. Water chestnuts grew again. And in 2024, Sarus cranes came home – twice.
This is what restoration sounds like when it’s guided by experience and care.
🎬 https://youtu.be/pPOIse1tYDg
Farmers planted for fish as much as for rice. Water chestnuts grew again. And in 2024, Sarus cranes came home – twice.
This is what restoration sounds like when it’s guided by experience and care.
🎬 https://youtu.be/pPOIse1tYDg
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November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
As water returned to Tram Chim, life followed.
Farmers planted for fish as much as for rice. Water chestnuts grew again. And in 2024, Sarus cranes came home – twice.
This is what restoration sounds like when it’s guided by experience and care.
🎬 https://youtu.be/pPOIse1tYDg
Farmers planted for fish as much as for rice. Water chestnuts grew again. And in 2024, Sarus cranes came home – twice.
This is what restoration sounds like when it’s guided by experience and care.
🎬 https://youtu.be/pPOIse1tYDg
💡 Business and nature are partners, not opposites.
Launching at #IPBES12, the first-ever @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment will reveal how industries can turn dependence on nature into lasting resilience. 🌿
Read the primer: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
Launching at #IPBES12, the first-ever @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment will reveal how industries can turn dependence on nature into lasting resilience. 🌿
Read the primer: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
💡 Business and nature are partners, not opposites.
Launching at #IPBES12, the first-ever @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment will reveal how industries can turn dependence on nature into lasting resilience. 🌿
Read the primer: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
Launching at #IPBES12, the first-ever @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment will reveal how industries can turn dependence on nature into lasting resilience. 🌿
Read the primer: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them.
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them.
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
🔔 Reliable evidence needs more than numbers; it needs trust.
The Botswana Trialogue helped bridge communities and institutions, creating shared ownership of biodiversity findings. 🤝
Explore how dialogue itself became a form of evidence.
www.besnet.world/five-reflect...
The Botswana Trialogue helped bridge communities and institutions, creating shared ownership of biodiversity findings. 🤝
Explore how dialogue itself became a form of evidence.
www.besnet.world/five-reflect...
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🔔 Reliable evidence needs more than numbers; it needs trust.
The Botswana Trialogue helped bridge communities and institutions, creating shared ownership of biodiversity findings. 🤝
Explore how dialogue itself became a form of evidence.
www.besnet.world/five-reflect...
The Botswana Trialogue helped bridge communities and institutions, creating shared ownership of biodiversity findings. 🤝
Explore how dialogue itself became a form of evidence.
www.besnet.world/five-reflect...
The Thailand National Trialogue is fully in session! 🚀
Day 2 examined how valuing marine ecosystem services can align sustainable growth with stewardship. 🌊
Discussions on "blue wealth" showed that when marine ecosystems are viewed as an asset shifts policy toward lasting prosperity. 🌿
Day 2 examined how valuing marine ecosystem services can align sustainable growth with stewardship. 🌊
Discussions on "blue wealth" showed that when marine ecosystems are viewed as an asset shifts policy toward lasting prosperity. 🌿
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The Thailand National Trialogue is fully in session! 🚀
Day 2 examined how valuing marine ecosystem services can align sustainable growth with stewardship. 🌊
Discussions on "blue wealth" showed that when marine ecosystems are viewed as an asset shifts policy toward lasting prosperity. 🌿
Day 2 examined how valuing marine ecosystem services can align sustainable growth with stewardship. 🌊
Discussions on "blue wealth" showed that when marine ecosystems are viewed as an asset shifts policy toward lasting prosperity. 🌿
🌊 Women keep fisheries alive – from untangling nets to processing the catch. But their knowledge rarely reaches policy tables.
For resilient oceans, governance must reflect the women holding the nets, not just those in the boardroom chairs. 👩👩👧👧🏛️
For resilient oceans, governance must reflect the women holding the nets, not just those in the boardroom chairs. 👩👩👧👧🏛️
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🌊 Women keep fisheries alive – from untangling nets to processing the catch. But their knowledge rarely reaches policy tables.
For resilient oceans, governance must reflect the women holding the nets, not just those in the boardroom chairs. 👩👩👧👧🏛️
For resilient oceans, governance must reflect the women holding the nets, not just those in the boardroom chairs. 👩👩👧👧🏛️
🇹🇭 Today, the Thailand Trialogue opened with thoughtful energy. 🌿🔆
Conversations centred on how Thailand can translate ecosystem insights into tangible progress for biodiversity and well-being.
Day 2 promises to keep that momentum, with the spotlight shifting to the sea and coast. Stay tuned! 🌿🪸
Conversations centred on how Thailand can translate ecosystem insights into tangible progress for biodiversity and well-being.
Day 2 promises to keep that momentum, with the spotlight shifting to the sea and coast. Stay tuned! 🌿🪸
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🇹🇭 Today, the Thailand Trialogue opened with thoughtful energy. 🌿🔆
Conversations centred on how Thailand can translate ecosystem insights into tangible progress for biodiversity and well-being.
Day 2 promises to keep that momentum, with the spotlight shifting to the sea and coast. Stay tuned! 🌿🪸
Conversations centred on how Thailand can translate ecosystem insights into tangible progress for biodiversity and well-being.
Day 2 promises to keep that momentum, with the spotlight shifting to the sea and coast. Stay tuned! 🌿🪸
📌 When biodiversity plans ignore rights, inclusion stays on paper.
The “Inclusive Conversations” report by @cdkn.org + partners shows how Indigenous Peoples, youth advocates and other rights holders can drive fair, lasting outcomes for climate & nature.
Read more: www.besnet.world/advancing-a-...
The “Inclusive Conversations” report by @cdkn.org + partners shows how Indigenous Peoples, youth advocates and other rights holders can drive fair, lasting outcomes for climate & nature.
Read more: www.besnet.world/advancing-a-...
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📌 When biodiversity plans ignore rights, inclusion stays on paper.
The “Inclusive Conversations” report by @cdkn.org + partners shows how Indigenous Peoples, youth advocates and other rights holders can drive fair, lasting outcomes for climate & nature.
Read more: www.besnet.world/advancing-a-...
The “Inclusive Conversations” report by @cdkn.org + partners shows how Indigenous Peoples, youth advocates and other rights holders can drive fair, lasting outcomes for climate & nature.
Read more: www.besnet.world/advancing-a-...
The global community is advancing two ambitious agendas for people and planet. 🌱
📊 Our new infographic shows how they reinforce one another – and why biodiversity action is central to building a just, resilient and sustainable future. 🤝
Explore it here. 👇
📊 Our new infographic shows how they reinforce one another – and why biodiversity action is central to building a just, resilient and sustainable future. 🤝
Explore it here. 👇
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The global community is advancing two ambitious agendas for people and planet. 🌱
📊 Our new infographic shows how they reinforce one another – and why biodiversity action is central to building a just, resilient and sustainable future. 🤝
Explore it here. 👇
📊 Our new infographic shows how they reinforce one another – and why biodiversity action is central to building a just, resilient and sustainable future. 🤝
Explore it here. 👇
✅ Fact: Indigenous knowledge offers real-world solutions – soil-friendly farming, wildfire prevention and water stewardship.
This is living science built over generations.
🌳 What if conservation plans started with this wisdom, not as an add-on but as a foundation?
This is living science built over generations.
🌳 What if conservation plans started with this wisdom, not as an add-on but as a foundation?
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
✅ Fact: Indigenous knowledge offers real-world solutions – soil-friendly farming, wildfire prevention and water stewardship.
This is living science built over generations.
🌳 What if conservation plans started with this wisdom, not as an add-on but as a foundation?
This is living science built over generations.
🌳 What if conservation plans started with this wisdom, not as an add-on but as a foundation?
🔓 Unlock a world of knowledge at the BES-Net Library! 📚
Access a vast collection of over 4000 resources on biodiversity and ecosystems to enhance your work and initiatives.
Start exploring today: https://www.besnet.world/libraries/
Access a vast collection of over 4000 resources on biodiversity and ecosystems to enhance your work and initiatives.
Start exploring today: https://www.besnet.world/libraries/
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🔓 Unlock a world of knowledge at the BES-Net Library! 📚
Access a vast collection of over 4000 resources on biodiversity and ecosystems to enhance your work and initiatives.
Start exploring today: https://www.besnet.world/libraries/
Access a vast collection of over 4000 resources on biodiversity and ecosystems to enhance your work and initiatives.
Start exploring today: https://www.besnet.world/libraries/