{"id":406,"date":"2019-05-24T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-06-20T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:36:53","slug":"recognising-biodiversity-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/2019\/05\/24\/recognising-biodiversity-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognising biodiversity globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks two special days for environmental sustainability: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/idb\/\">International Day for Biological Diversity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbeeday.org\/en\/\">World Bee Day<\/a>. While symbolic in scope, the importance of having days dedicated to thought, speech and action for protecting and increasing biodiversity and bees on this planet deserves recognition.<\/p>\n<p>In this short post I want to flag up a video produced at Newcastle University with two brilliant researchers in biology and ecology: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/nes\/staff\/profile\/louisemair.html#background\">Dr Louise Mair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/nes\/staff\/profile\/friederikebolam.html#background\">Dr Rike Bolam<\/a>. They answer a series of questions from young people about animals and biodiversity more generally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ask Our Experts: Biodiversity - Part 1\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HMHdvymKl-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I also want to draw attention to a series of &#8216;short stories&#8217; that explain a vision of where academic research and conservation needs to go up until 2030 and beyond (click each one to find out more).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DACv7DKlqI8\/view?utm_content=DACv7DKlqI8&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=embeds&amp;utm_source=social\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb.png 454w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DACwB4oRqdo\/view?utm_content=DACwB4oRqdo&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=embeds&amp;utm_source=social\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb2.png 466w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb2-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DACwBw4SAto\/view?utm_content=DACwBw4SAto&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=embeds&amp;utm_source=social\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb3-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb3-2.png 472w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/files\/2019\/05\/cb3-2-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>International collaboration is key to reversing the downward trend of biodiversity and protecting the Earth&#8217;s key pollinators, without whom we would surely struggle to survive, if not perish.<\/p>\n<p>brett.cherry@newcastle.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks two special days for environmental sustainability: International Day for Biological Diversity and World Bee Day. While symbolic in scope, the importance of having days dedicated to thought, speech and action for protecting and increasing biodiversity and bees on this planet deserves recognition. In this short post I want to flag up a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/2019\/05\/24\/recognising-biodiversity-globally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recognising biodiversity globally<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5836,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[59,14],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lets-get-sustainable","tag-biodiversity","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recognising biodiversity globally - {a writer in the laboratory}<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"International days for biodiversity and bees are important in our quest to protect and restore life on Planet Earth.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/2019\/05\/24\/recognising-biodiversity-globally\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recognising biodiversity globally - 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