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Financial barriers are amongst the most listed obstacles for sustainable development by companies and initiatives focusing on the Amazon. It does not matter if it's the lack of it, or subtle communication about it, so this is something to really celebrate. With an eye to the COP16 on Biodiversity in Colombia and the other one to the Bioeconomy Amazon Summit, an initiative of the Global Compact, Brazil, and Kptl.

Some tree species have extinct danger like the pau brazil below. The Forest Viva Institut collects seeds for the restoration of protection zones and agroforestry systems in the hotspots known for their high biodiversity.

🦁🌟 Discover the Marvellous World of Golden Lion Tamarins! 🌟🦁 Did you know that these tiny, golden-furred primates are not just adorable but also incredibly important to our planet's biodiversity? 🌍 Let's take a moment to appreciate and learn more about the golden lion tamarins, these little treasures of the rainforest. 🌳💛 🔸 The Golden Lion Tamarin, native to Brazil, is one of the rarest primates on Earth. With their distinctive golden fur and striking manes, they are like tiny lions swinging through the trees! 🌳🦁 🔸 These little guys are champions of conservation! They've faced habitat loss and threats from human activity, but thanks to dedicated conservation efforts, their populations are slowly recovering. 🙌🌿 🔸 Golden lion tamarins are "keystone species," which means they play a crucial role in their ecosystem. By helping to disperse seeds, they contribute to the health and diversity of the rainforest. 🌱🌳 🔸 You can help protect these amazing creatures by supporting organizations like @Associationofthegoldenliontamarin https://micoleao.org.br/ 🌟💚 Let's spread the word and raise awareness about these incredible animals. Share your thoughts, facts, or even your own encounters with golden lion tamarins in the comments below! Let's work together to ensure a brighter future for them and our planet. 🌎✨ #GoldenLionTamarin #Conservation #Biodiversity #WildlifeWednesday #Darwin200 #Association 

From #PoulpeFiction to #PLATICAS... 🐙 an octopus-driven cooperation. A few months ago I was very happy to organise a capacity training visit for French fishermen and members of the Brittany Regional fisheries Committee to meet their Asturians counterparts, who developed a long term strategy for sustainable #Octopus fisheries with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and #EMFF #CLLD support. This effort feeds into the objectives of the European cooperation project #PLATICAS, which seeks to develop #SustainableBlueGrowth in the fisheries, shellfish and aquaculture sectors of the Atlantic area of the Spanish coast. The project, coordinated by the University of Cantabria, seeks to develop a collaboration platform from the Basque Country to the Canary Islands helping the transition of food production system towards lower carbon emissions, stopping loss of biodiversity, preserve and increase the natural capital of the ocean. A concrete demonstration of successful and sustainable fisheries practices powered up by #localsupport, #Europeancooperation and #dialogue between researchers, fishers and the market. Universidad de Cantabria Universidad de Oviedo Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (PLOCAN) Blue Growth Vigo AZTI Centro Tecnológico del Mar - FUNDACIÓN CETMAR FAMENET - Fisheries and Aquaculture Monitoring, Evaluation and Local Support Network European Commission Julien Dubreuil Astrid HIRSCH Morgane Ramonet #CRPMEMBretagne #CDPMEM56

I tend to hear a lot that fisheries are well managed on the North Sea, and we have nothing to worry about. However the latest OSPAR Quality Status report shows worrying trends mainly due to fishing pressure, especially trawling. In 2018, this technique was still being used over 73% of the North Sea seabed. As a result, fish have become smaller, fish populations have changed and food webs are disturbed. Bycatch from fishing affects small toothed cetaceans such as the harbour porpoise. None of the fish species groups assessed (coastal, demersal, deep-sea and pelagic species) reached the threshold of 80% populations in good status. The assessments of seabed habitats and food webs show that disturbance and extraction had a significant impact. Together with 22 civil society organisations, we called on Virginijus Sinkevičius, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, to take action. We call for ecosystem-based fisheries management. This approach integrates ecological objectives with traditional catch-maximisation goals and includes spatial protection for vulnerable species and habitats, such as through marine protected areas. https://lnkd.in/efVXbi8E European Commission, Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit, Sciaena, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Seas At Risk, Oceana in Europe, ClientEarth, Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), BirdLife International, Danmarks Naturfredningsforening, Ecologistas en Acción, Fuglavernd - BirdLife Iceland, Dansk Ornitologisk Forening (DOF) BirdLife Danmark, BirdWatch Ireland, BirdLife Norge, The Irish Wildlife Trust, Landvernd, NATUR OG UNGDOM, Naturvernforbundet, Sabima, Shark Guardian UK Charity, SHARKPROJECT, Vogelbescherming Nederland.

🤝At The AES Corporation, we develop programs focused on biodiversity protection and sustainable living. We strive to serve our communities at the highest standard of excellence and work together to accelerate the future of energy. 🌿For more than 15 years AES Brasil’s Fisheries Management Program has supported fish biodiversity and has built awareness on the rational exploration of reservoirs within the fishing industry. Each year, 2.5 million fish of local native species are produced and released in reservoirs operated by the company, contributing to the preservation of local biodiversity. Watch the video to learn more: https://t.ly/gVPP1 #YesAES #Biodiveristy

This week the documentary 'You cannot milk a Black-tailed Godwit' will premier in my home country of The Netherlands. It follows a Frisian dairy farmer who warmly welcomes each spring a large numbers of meadow-birds on his land to breed, including the Netherlands' National Bird the Black-tailed Godwit, and their families. The trailer already shows the profound love of farmer Bote de Boer for 'his' birds. It is the same love I saw when interviewing a Dutch mixed-poultry farmer on the implementation of EU water protection law when I was a student: With tears in his eyes he told me about showing his grandson a White stork, something which his father had shown him in the 1950's, however something he could never show his own son in the 1980's when frogs disappeared from their land and the storks with it. The movie also shows how Bote is exceptional, and how other farmers -including his own sons- point out that his way of farming is not viable despite public subsidies. While environmental efficiencies and pollution control by farmers made the return of the Storks above and other freshwater nature possible, the combined economic roadmap presented to Dutch farmers today is still one of post-war intensification for 'food security', requiring big investment to stay afloat against low market power (and pay back these large technical investments to banks). And it has turned most Dutch meadows into giant pool table, single-species grass plantation. Bote is convinced that it does not have to be this way, and I agree. At the same time I fully understand that most farmers with similar ideals but fewer means or supportive family like Bote, do not feel taken seriously. None of this is news. And when the European Commission presented in 2009 its vision for a European Green Deal and 'Farm to Fork Strategy' that 'would leave no one behind', I was very hopeful for a fairer, credible, more coherent, and more predictable policy and corresponding legal framework. Today I was relieved that the #NatureRestorationLaw can help provide more credibility and predictability on the environmental side of this equation. At the same time I have a bitter aftertaste about the large political capital spent on sowing division - almost successfully. While burning bridges is the least thing we need in succeeding on the other sides of the equation: Fairness and coherence. Only this could facilitate a different economic roadmap than today, and one that is not only attractive enough for farmers like Bote, but also for his sons. There are plenty of local examples where this is already possible today, but they lack scale. Therefore I hope that the upcoming European elections will vote in a new set of lawmakers that are genuinely committed to deliver on this unmet part of the Green Deal. Next week I will watch this this documentary in The Netherlands together with my own father. Hope it will inspire my and others future work on a more restorative future for nature and caring farmers.

I really like how the Bieslandse Polder near Gemeente Delft and Gemeente Pijnacker-Nootdorp is managed, what a great example of combining farming with conservation of nature, and keeping access for the public. There are good examples of hedgerows (willows, great for birds and insects too) and innovations such as waterfiltering by reeds. The quality and diversity of grasses, herbs and other plants is rich. Good diversity of trees too. I enjoyed seeing cattle roam around in the bushes and eat from the shrubs, with a hare closeby. Worth a visit on a summer evening ! “Oorspronkelijk werd de naam Polder van Biesland gebruikt voor een poldergebied dat de huidige Polder van Biesland én de Bieslandse Bovenpolder omvatte. Een belangrijk deel van de Polder van Biesland is in gebruik bij de familie Duijndam ten behoeve van hun veeteeltbedrijf. Op 7 maart 2007 tekenden de familie en diverse overheden zoals de provincie, het ministerie van LNV, de gemeenten Delft en Pijnacker-Nootdorp en het Stadsgewest Haaglanden een samenwerkingsovereenkomst over Boeren voor Natuur . De overeenkomst houdt onder meer in dat er een subsidie komt voor het boeren in de Bieslandse Polder. De overeenkomst was het startsein voor de herinrichting van een deel van de polder. De herinrichting gaat de ecologische waarde en de duurzaamheid van de polder verhogen. De Stichting Vrienden van Biesland speelt hierbij een belangrijke rol.” “Het ontstaan van de Bieslandpolder is scherp te dateren. In het jaar 1450 gaf het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland van Delfland de opdracht tot het aanleggen van een scheidingskade in het noorden van “Delfgawy in ’t Bieslant”. Deze kade heet tot vandaag de Noordkade en scheidt nog steeds de Noordpolder en Biesland.” (https://lnkd.in/e75aX_wj) https://lnkd.in/eg2eiqN7 (https://lnkd.in/eb_NhACc) (https://lnkd.in/e3paBiCS) #Biodiversity #SustainableAgriculture #ClimateSmartAgriculture #CulturalHistory #VogelwachtDelft Provincie Zuid-Holland Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit Rijkswaterstaat Vogelbescherming Nederland Natuurmonumenten LTO Nederland Wageningen University & Research Hoeve Biesland Bieslandse Bos Vereniging Nederlands Cultuurlandschap

Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance is thrilled to announce our collaboration with Temasek Trust, DBS Foundation and UBS Optimus Foundation who today, at the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore, announced their strategic partnership to build Co-Axis, a pioneering digital marketplace dedicated to catalytic capital. PescaData, a winner of Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance's Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge 2023, has been selected as one of the impactful initiatives featured on Co-Axis. PescaData’s innovative app is a pre-seed impact venture designed to enhance data collection, communication and financial decision-making for small-scale fishers. Over 1.2 million people in the Latin American and Caribbean region participate in small-scale fishing – with over 300,000 working in Mexico alone. The software can ultimately accelerate peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, so action can scale rapidly, supporting sustainable fisheries, Ocean health, and the resilience of coastal communities in developing countries. “PescaData is excited to be included on the Co-Axis platform. We see it as a great opportunity to share our story and our impact with like-mind organisations and investors as we grow and support small-scale fishing organisations across Latin America,” said Stuart Fulton, co-founder of PescaData. Discover more about how PescaData is revolutionising financial decision-making in support of more sustainable fishing practices: https://lnkd.in/ezwXynp4 #ORRAA #ImpactVenture #PhilanthropyAsia #ImpactInnovation

This week we have celebrated the final event of the project AUTOPESCA, developed in partnership with Organización de Palangreros Guardeses (ORPAGU). It has been a good moment to communicate insights as well as explaining the performed actions. AUTOPESCA aimed to integrate different technologies into the fisheries processes: 1) simulation and digital-twin of the post-processing in the factory, 2) ergonomic support to shark peeling through robotics and mechatronics, and 3) ergonomic support to loading/unloading tasks through exoskeletons. In these lines, CTAG – Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia has transferred knowledge from other sectors to solve these enormous challenges. Organización de Palangreros Guardeses (ORPAGU) has been a brave, innovative and open-minded partner. Regarding the exoskeletons evaluation, we will publish the results in a scientific journal during the next months. Thanks to the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food for their financial support, to the team of Organización de Palangreros Guardeses (ORPAGU) for such remarkable experience, and to the suppliers JOSMAR FoodTech Solutions and HeroWear for their collaboration.