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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.
⚖️ A justice system reveals a lot about a society. Who feels protected, who feels heard, and who feels invisible.
At #CSW70, leaders and advocates are exploring how institutions can better reflect the needs of the communities they serve
Learn more: www.unwomen.org/en/articles/...
⚖️Justice is the foundation of development and resilient societies. Yet, 5 billion+ people still lack access, especially women in fragile contexts.
Join UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo and partners at #CSW70 for Advancing Women’s Access to Justice.
📺Watch live: bit.ly/471UTYp
📢 The latest BES-Net newsletter is out! 🌿
This issue includes updates from IPBES 12 in Manchester and a grounded story from the Aral Sea region on water governance and integrated management.
Read it here: https://besnet.world/newsletter-3
📣 From climate justice to digital democracy & gender‑responsive reforms, @UNDP is bringing together global partners to drive action for gender justice and equality at #CSW70.
Be part of the conversations shaping the future.
See all events: http://go.undp.org/5mZ
Protecting life-support systems is exactly why inclusive, accountable conservation matters. A rights-based approach helps ensure those most connected to ecosystems can shape and sustain that protection. 🙏🏻
Thank you for raising this. A human rights lens helps address power, participation and accountability in conservation, especially for communities directly affected. It is not placing people over nature but stressing inclusion to make biodiversity action more legitimate and lasting. 🙏🏻
10+ years.
50+ countries engaged.
2 global donors backing the work from the start: @iki-germany.bsky.social and Swedbio.
We value this sustained partnership.
Explore their work:
🔗 https://swed.bio/
🔗 https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/
This is not a list of social gaps. It is a map of missed ecological potential.
Secure land rights enable stewardship. Inclusive finance enables innovation. Legal protection enables leadership.
When systems function fairly, biodiversity benefits.
Explore more to see how the pieces connect. ⤵️
📌 Let #InternationalWomensDay move from a quote to a plan.
It starts with three questions:
🔖 Who has rights on paper and in practice?
🔖 Who gets justice when harm happens?
🔖 Who has power to act, with resources behind them?
That’s “Rights. Justice. Action”, not as a slogan but as a standard. ✅
Mobilizing finance for biodiversity is essential to meet global commitments under the #KMGBF.
Supported by @undpbiofin.bsky.social and @thegef.bsky.social, 90+ countries are now developing national strategic plans that unlock financial flows for nature.
www.thegef.org/newsroom/fea...
Biodiversity indicators often count species and hectares.
🇨🇴 Colombia asked a different question: who benefits, who participates and who is protected when biodiversity projects move forward?
A human rights lens reshapes what success looks like.
www.besnet.world/tracking-imp...
Young people are not waiting for permission to lead. From climate strikes to eco-entrepreneurship, they are rewriting what governance looks like. 🌍✨
The real question is: will today’s institutions share power fast enough? What stands in their way and what clears the path?
Learn more. 👇
9 out of 10 plant species used for medicinal and aromatic purposes are now considered threatened. 🌿⚠️
Medicinal plants are wildlife too. Their survival depends on healthy ecosystems and on the knowledge that guides how we care for nature. 🌱
Conservation isn’t only about protection. It’s about knowing how to live with nature.
🌿 Knowledge → practice → thriving wildlife
See how these connections come together. 👇
#WWD2026 #WorldWildlifeDay
🌿 The Iraca palm shelters homes, carries medicine, shapes livelihoods and holds memory.
In Putumayo, restoring it means elders guiding seed walks, women leading ceremony, youth learning by doing.
This #WorldWildlifeDay, see how one plant sustains far more than habitat.
We talk about saving wildlife.
But how often do we mean plants? 🌿
This #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re spotlighting medicinal & aromatic plants – wild species that support health, culture and livelihoods worldwide.
Wildlife isn’t only what moves. Sometimes, it grows quietly. 🌱
#WWD2026
🌿 Some words are data.
Indigenous languages can encode seasonal cues, place names as maps and stewardship rules that guide sustainable use.
@UNESCO.org notes language loss can erase ecological knowledge in vocabulary.
Learn more. ⤵️
📢 We’re looking for a BES-Net and @undpbiofin.bsky.social intern!
Help support global initiatives that link knowledge, finance and country action.
Open to graduate students or recent graduates in environment, economics, policy or related fields.
Apply by 8 March: www.besnet.world/jobs/biofin-...
In the Aral Sea region, water once defined livelihoods. Then it receded, leaving salt, dust and stranded boats.
Now, governments are working across borders to rebuild water governance, linking ecosystems, land use and shared management.
Read the full story here: www.besnet.world/strengthenin...
Want to stay informed and engaged on crucial environmental themes? 🌳🦋🌍
Register as a user with BES-Net!
📚 Gain access to comprehensive resources
🤝 Network with experts worldwide
👥 Participate in impactful events
Join our community!
🌐 https://www.besnet.world/register-as-a-user/
🚨 Critically endangered but not beyond help.
With growing population decline, saving these creatures is a race against time.
The decline of pangolins is a stark reminder of the impacts of #WildlifeTrafficking and habitat destruction.
We must act now to reverse this trend and ensure their survival.
From climate impacts to biodiversity loss, the Caribbean is navigating a growing polycrisis.
Watch as participants of the Second BES-Net Caribbean Regional Trialogue reflect on bridging evidence and action, from ecosystem assessments to inclusive, science-based decision making.
🛡️ Your risk register might track pandemics and energy shocks, but does it name ecosystem collapse?
A recent UK security assessment links biodiversity loss to pressure on food, water, health and supply chains, using a “reasonable worst case” lens.
Learn more. ⤵️
🌍 The money story is upside down: $220bn goes to protecting nature, while $7.3tn a year supports activities that damage it – about a 30:1 ratio. Most harm funding is private, but nature finance is mostly public.
Learn more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166809
🌍 Turning drylands green takes patience, knowledge and local leadership.
In Kazakhstan, a master falconer is working with rural communities to restore degraded land and revive natural springs, showing how local action can drive environmental recovery.
Learn more: go.undp.org/53S
Looking ahead means thinking beyond today. 🌱
Hear from participants at the recent BES-Net’s Second Caribbean Regional Trialogue about caring for nature and safeguarding the Caribbean’s ecosystems for generations to come. 👇
https://youtu.be/aSytuIAhuWw
🌍 What does it take to keep @ipbes.net knowledge alive beyond the moment of adoption?
At #IPBES12, we joined conversations on post-assessment uptake, heard practical country examples and met with delegates to understand priorities and constraints.
Read our recap: www.besnet.world/advancing-th...
🔖 Biodiversity decisions start long before a policy meeting; they start with who sets the research agenda.
That is why #WomenInScience matters.
When women are supported to lead, publish and shape the evidence, the decisions that follow get stronger.
See why. ⤵️
Today, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Closing the gender gap is not just inspiration, it is systems: mentoring that lasts, funding criteria that reward inclusion, and leadership pathways that open doors.
Better systems, better science for nature. 🌿
🌱💲 Putting a price tag on nature is not the point. The bigger question is who gets to define value in the first place.
Learn more about plural valuation and why making space for different worldviews changes the quality of decisions.
🔗 www.besnet.world/expert-of-th...
