🇲🇼 Malawi’s national ecosystem assessment is out! It finds a connected system under strain and some of the strongest conservation results where communities retain real authority over land and fisheries. The evidence for action is here. Read the highlights: www.besnet.world/story/malawi...

🌳 Nature-based solutions (NbS) can empower women or burden them. Poor design can add unpaid labour while benefits flow elsewhere. Women4Biodiversity explains what gender-responsive NbS must consider rights, safety, benefits and decision-making power. Read: women4biodiversity.org/the-most-exp...

📥 The July BES-Net Blast is out, with new stories from Botswana, Thailand, Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire, plus IPBES regional dialogues, Business and Biodiversity Assessment chapters, partner updates and open roles in the biodiversity community. Read the full issue: www.besnet.world/newsletter-3/

📌 IPBES assessments shape biodiversity policy worldwide. @ipbes.net is inviting national focal points, stakeholders and practitioners to share experiences and recommendations on how assessment findings can better inform policy. Find out how to contribute. ⬇️ https://www.ipbes.net/node/103771

🛖 Traditional knowledge stays current because it keeps moving from generation to generation. Interrupt that movement through displacement or a language falling out of use, and the knowledge can disappear outright. See how that chain holds. ⬇️

Around 700 young people joined Côte d’Ivoire’s Gnambêlê Bootcamp, united by concern for biodiversity. They left with stronger skills, new networks and a clearer path to action. See how seven days of learning grew into a national youth network: www.besnet.world/story/buildi...

🚨 Happening today: the global presentation of Malawi’s first National Ecosystem Assessment. Hear the findings and how they can inform planning and biodiversity policy. 🕒 15:00 BST 🌐 Online via Zoom Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_afT7N9kdSESiEFUh3XllkQ#/registration

📌 CBD SBI 7 will focus attention on implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework. The UNDP Nature Pledge addresses a related challenge: connecting evidence, finance and institutional capacity so national plans can move forward. Learn more: undp.org/nature/natur...

A species can escape extinction and still remain deeply vulnerable. That's the case for tigers. 🐅 Recovery means viable populations, connected habitats and gains that can withstand future pressures. Today, we recognize the progress while keeping the goal in view. 🙌

A tiger may be the most visible inhabitant of its landscape, but it is never the only one at stake. Protecting the conditions tigers need can also safeguard water, forests, prey and many overlooked species sharing the same system. Look beyond the stripes. #InternationalTigerDay

🌱 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. Ahead of #COP17Ulaanbaatar, see why visibility matters for restoring land and hope. 👇

Around the world, #IndigenousPeoples and local communities govern, use and care for lands and waters that hold some of the planet's richest biodiversity. Knowing who they are helps explain why rights, authority and stewardship are central to biodiversity governance. Learn more. 👇

Malawi has completed its first National Ecosystem Assessment. 📅 On 30 July, the team behind it will share the findings and discuss how they can be used in national planning and biodiversity policy. 🕒 15:00 to 16:15 BST 🌐 Online via Zoom Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🌱 Planting mangroves can look like the whole job. It rarely is. Restoration starts with the site, the water, causes of loss and people who know the landscape best. Without that groundwork, even well-meant projects can struggle. These six principles show how to restore the wider ecosystem. 👇

Mangroves hold entire worlds within their roots, branches and tidal waters. They shelter wildlife, sustain livelihoods and help protect coastlines from erosion and storms. Conserving them means keeping a living system, and the communities connected to it, intact. #MangroveDay

Indigenous territories hold much of the planet's remaining biodiversity. Protecting those territories requires recognizing the rights of those who care for them.  This handbook gives Indigenous youth the legal tools to do just that. Explore and share it: www.besnet.world/library/hand...

Ahead of #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we kick off our glossary series on Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity: 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. First term: #TraditionalKnowledge. Not a record of the past. An active practice of observing land and species as they change, right now.

Kenya’s BES Solution Fund journey began with an action plan and grew into field trials, restored landscapes, documented Ogiek knowledge and county policy. See how four years of collaboration moved biodiversity evidence from farms and forests into decisions: www.besnet.world/what-the-for...

A damaged ecosystem rarely appears as a single, isolated problem. It can surface later as supply disruption, rising costs, lost livelihoods or pressure on public finances. The consequences travel. Learn more: https://www.besnet.world/nature-is-everybodys-business/ #NatureIsEverybodysBusiness

🌿 Some biodiversity work is visible in reports. Much of it lives in daily practice, shared knowledge and relationships with land and resources. When women’s contributions go uncounted, conservation decisions begin with an incomplete picture. See what remains hidden. 👇

Are you working on biodiversity, ecosystem services, policy, science, Indigenous & local knowledge, governance or related fields? Register as a BES-Net expert to join our expert pool, share your knowledge and connect with relevant initiatives. 🔗https://www.besnet.world/register-as-an-expert/

📅 Coming up on 17 July: Indigenous and local knowledge lead authors from Thailand and Malawi will share community-based scenarios at UNESCO, showing how diverse knowledge can shape foresight before priorities are fixed. 🕝 14:30 CEST Scan the QR code to register for online participation.

🌱 The way we grow, move and waste food has a bigger impact on the planet than many of us realize. From what ends up on our plates to what ends up in the bin, small choices can add up over time. Swipe through for simple food habits that are better for you and the planet. ⬇️

The people who manage land, water, seeds and forests daily are often the last to be consulted, which means biodiversity decisions are made with incomplete information. That is a biodiversity problem, not only a gender one. Learn what BES-Net is doing to close the gap: www.besnet.world/gender-3/

Community-based scenarios from Thailand and Malawi are bringing Indigenous and local knowledge into the future-planning conversation. Join UNESCO on 17 July to hear how traditional knowledge can shape foresight before policies and priorities are set. 📍 Paris + online Scan the QR code to register.

Science, spatial analysis, scenario modelling, and traditional and local knowledge all shaped Botswana’s national ecosystem assessment. Join the global presentation on 15 July to explore how its findings can inform planning and biodiversity action. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🍃 Restoration can fall short when water, soil, farms and finance are treated as separate problems. This brief from ELD Initiative, Watershed Organisation Trust and W-CReS looks at what changes when land is restored as a whole system. 🌱 Learn more: www.besnet.world/library/rest...

In the high Andes, an Inca-era tradition is protecting a species, sustaining livelihoods and caring for grassland ecosystems at the same time. See what that looks like in practice. ⬇️ https://stories.undp.org/custodians-of-andean-life/

📅 On 16 July, BES-Net, UNESCO LINKS and Colombia’s Permanent Delegation to UNESCO will co-organize a side event exploring Indigenous-led documentation, biocultural diversity and conservation in Colombia. 🕓 16:50 to 18:05 📍 Join the official side event live at UNESCO Paris, Room IX or online.

What does a business have to do with biodiversity if it does not farm, fish or extract natural resources? More than may be immediately visible. Swipe through to follow the connection from everyday operations to the conditions shaping business decisions. 👇 ➡️ Swipe through!