EcoAdvance stars again!
EcoAdvance stars again! The 2024 edition of the @UNEP Nature for Life Hub broadcast world-wide starting September 30 will feature a video collaboration between EcoAdvance BioAgora Project and Onewater. Nature for Life Hub, co-hosted by the United Nations Development Programme, The United Nations Environment Programme, and The Convention on Biological Diversity, is designed as a platform for raising awareness of the value of nature. Every year it holds a competition to find the most persuasive media to inspire and engage people from across the spectrum and across the world in improving the environment.
This year our contribution will be broadcast on October 2nd, on demand, in the Deep Dives section in the "Behavioral Change and Environmental Impact" segment. We will be featured with @Rodale Institute, @The Nature Conservancy, @ Rare, and @Ayni Studios, among other winners.
Our video captures transformative learning based on a workshop at the Alpine Rivers Symposium to help stakeholders reimagine how to adapt to climate change.
Changing attitudes and expectations of easy answers is the first step; people have to appreciate other points of view before they will change to more environmentally sustainable behaviors- change we all understand is urgently needed but continues to be difficult to attain.
Put hashtag#NatureforlifeHub2024 on your calendar! Register here: https://lnkd.in/dv_zdcd4
Freshwater Restoration was on the agenda at the DALIA Danube Lighthouse project workshop last week Freshwater Restoration was on the agenda at the DALIA Danube Lighthouse project workshop last week. EcoAdvance Partner Zuzana Boukalova, leads WP4, the Clustering work package, presented strategies to work with other projects, gave the preliminary count on the EcoAdvance Survey and mapped out further plans for the two projects to leverage efforts. Organised in Valtice, Moravia by T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute (TGM WRI) and Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, participants from around the region were welcomed by project coordinator Boglárka O. Lakatos. The group toured the Czech Demo site Dyje and talked about flooding, which had started on the Morava River and assaulted the region over the weekend. |
Excited to join the Network Nature Task Force meeting next week! Excited to join the Network Nature Task Force meeting next week! Representing EcoAdvance, I get to work with other communicators to develop programs to support NBS, nature based solutions. How do we change the culture of grey infrastructure and focus more on leveraging what the environment may provide – rewilding, nature restoration and other methods to restore freshwater ecosystems? That's why at the Task Force meeting, I will be working to develop a program to educate journalists and help them understand the scientific and policy jargon and issues of the NBS, environment and climate sustainability ecosystem. Comment below so we can include it when we try to craft useful and feasible initiatives! |
Will the Nature Restoration Law achieve the jumpstart to ecosystem restoration Europe needs?  Will the Nature Restoration Law that went into effect last week achieve the jumpstart to ecosystem restoration Europe needs? Maybe. Its supporters certainly hope it will anchor all of the work of NetworkNature EU, Biodiversa+, and other projects funded by the European Commission. The challenge is how to “Make people part of ecosystem restoration in Europe” so it becomes a central tenet of European culture. That is exactly why Bundesamt für Naturschutz German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation) held a workshop on the subject and gathered over 60 experts to pool their techniques and experience. So if you are looking for some high quality materials on how to engage people in investing in nature restoration, you'll find the answers and practical tips synthesized and expertly compiled by Irina Kozban, Simone Wulf and others into a video, a 2page guide for policy makers and a booklet that brings practice into focus. The outputs illustrate the importance, principles and practical aspects of involving society and various interest groups in restoration efforts:
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