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Wetland Champions, are you ready for Bioblitz Challenge #2? It is time to level up & test your skills of observation - Can you help us spot damselflies as these masters of camouflage glide through the grass reminding us of 'needle in a haystack'? 🌾🔍👀 Rules of the Game: It's simple - spot, record & upload observations! * When? 1st-10th November, 2024 * Where? Online on the project page of India Biodiversity Portal or iNaturalist using the link: https://lnkd.in/gBtyxYzd * Why do This? Help science! Your observations of odonate (dragonfly & damselfy) populations offer insights into the health of wetlands. Through this initiative, you can learn to appreciate these incredible insects! Top uploaders recording the diversity of damselflies - that is the highest species counts, stand a chance to win exciting prizes! Turn up your focus and join the quest of counting the damselflies! ✨ #WWFIndia #odonates #dragonfly #damselfly #wetlands #citizenscience #bioblitz

WWF-India’s exclusive 2025 calendars 🗓️ are now available on the Nature Store! Whether you’re a birdwatcher, obsessed with tigers, a naturalist with an eye for habitat frames, or a landscape enthusiast, we’ve got a gorgeous calendar for you. Order yours using this link: https://bit.ly/3NIaF0v 🦅On the Move: This evocative calendar illustrated by the incredibly talented Richa Kedia charts out the flight paths of some fascinating migratory birds found in India. 🐅Wild Grace: Have you noticed how effortlessly graceful a tiger is? The stunning photographs in this tiger calendar capture this feline grace as well as the majestic power of our national animal. 🐆In Their Element: Animals belong in the wild. This unique calendar zooms out to present some of the most remarkable wild animals of India at play in their pristine natural habitat. 🌊Water Tales: From bubbling forest streams to still lakes on the mountains and cascading waterfalls, this breathtaking calendar frames the beauty and diversity of India’s life-giving waterscapes. 🦁Nature’s Glory: Can’t decide which calendar to buy? Look no further than Nature’ Glory, which marks all the Green Days of 2025 and gives you reasons to celebrate nature—in all its glory—every month. Every calendar purchase directly supports WWF-India’s conservation efforts. Get your nature calendar today and help us in creating a better world, one day at a time. #WWFIndia #calendars #naturecalendars #naturestore

You might have used the 🫶 gesture or emoji but have you ever seen any other species contort its body to the shape of a heart?🤔 With the #DragonflyFestival2024 in full swing and odonates flitting all around, we decided to ask people what it means when two odonates come together to make this formation? Comment with a 🫶 if you have observed this odonate behaviour before. This video is part of a voxpop series made to create awareness on odonates and inspire the conservation of wetlands. This video has been created with the support of Agoda #DragonflyFestival2024 #wetlands #dragonfly #dragonfliesmating #heart #WWFIndia #odonata

Do you know how dragonflies and damselflies use their ninja-like stealth & agility to protect us? This next question that we posed to people on #DragonflyFestival2024 offered some food for thought — just how big a role do these small creatures play in the health of humans & #PlanetEarth ? Have you seen an odonate enjoying a meal? Tell us in the comments below. This video is part of a voxpop series made to create awareness on odonates and inspire the conservation of wetlands. This video has been created with the support of Agoda #WWFIndia #wetlands #dragonfly #odonata #habitat

The latest episode of the WWF-India Podcast: Nature Speaks 🎙️is now live! This riveting episode on Rhino conservation is our first one in Hindi. 🦏 Dr. Mudit Gupta, Senior Landscape Coordinator at WWF-India, shares the inspiring success story of reintroducing Indian Rhinos in Dudhwa. First reintroduced in a limited area for protection in the early 1980s, these rhinos are soon set to be free-ranging for the first time! Joined by Yash Shethia, Director-Wildlife & Habitat, WWF-India, Gupta also delves into the programme's challenges, achievements, and future plans to grow the rhino population in the Terai Arc Landscape. 🌱 Don't miss this deep dive into wildlife conservation! 🎧 Tune in now using this link: https://lnkd.in/djnbUdUY #wwfindia #podcast #rhino

The Sustainable Financial Regulations and Central Bank Activities (SUSREG) Tracker, developed by WWF´s Greening Financial Regulation Initiative (GFRI), helps assess how central banks, financial regulators and supervisors integrate climate, broader environmental and social considerations into their practices. The SUSREG Tracker 2024 finds that banking and insurance supervision on climate-related issues have been steadily progressing over the past four years. Key findings include: 📊 Banking supervision shows 18% rise in climate measures (2021-2024); insurance up 17% since 2022; central banking slower at 4% ⚠️ Nature risks (deforestation, water management) remain overlooked; crucial tools like target-setting underutilized 🌎 31 out of 50 countries fall below 50% of SUSREG's environmental criteria; 7/10 biodiversity hotspots show weak nature risk supervision 📈 The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI’s) Climate Study 2024: Delayed climate action poses serious risks to India's long-term economic growth & inflation stability. 💹 RBI Monetary Policy 2024: Climate change impacts expected to lower natural interest rates while requiring stricter inflation controls. India is looking to empower its financial sector to prepare itself to assess and mitigate its climate-related exposure: 📑 New Banking Framework: RBI mandates banks & NBFCs to report climate-related financial risks for better risk assessment. 🌱 The Union Budget 2024-25: The Government of India has stated its plans to develop the nation’s first sustainable finance taxonomy. 🔍 Why it matters India needs climate and nature finance to address the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. The WWF SUSREG Tracker 2024 highlights that enhanced financial flows are essential to support sustainable practices, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and protect natural habitats. This is crucial for ensuring a resilient future for the country, its population and diverse ecosystems. Download the report: https://lnkd.in/dKtWSVU7 #SustainableFinance #ClimateAction #RBI #GreenFinance #Sustainability #WWF #SUSREG2024

On International Snow Leopard Day, get to know the elusive big cat of the Himalayas. Find out its biggest threats and the various actions WWF-India is taking for its protection. Visit the link and join the fight today. https://bit.ly/3A01jdv Support our field work that balances conservation goals, development & community well-being. Credits Pics 1,2,3,10: Muhammad Osama/WWF Pic 4, 6: Sascha Fonseca/WWF Pic 5: Tushar B/shutterstock.com Pic 7: Dipankar Ghose/WWF-India Pic 8, 9: WWF-India #WWFIndia #SnowLeopard #InternationalSnowLeopardDay

On 15 October 2024, a workshop to develop an action plan for establishing raptor-safe landscapes in Rajasthan was held at Rajasthan International Centre, Jaipur. The workshop was organised by the Department of Forests, Rajasthan, in collaboration with WWF-India. The workshop was chaired by Shri Arijit Banerjee, PCCF & HoFF of Rajasthan and Shri Pavan Kumar Upadhyay, PCCF (WL) & CWLW, Rajasthan. Other notable dignitaries included Shri Ravi Singh, SG & CEO of WWF-India, Shri Rajpal Singh, Member of State Wildlife Board, and Dr Divyabhanusinh Chavda, Director of Raptor Research and Conservation Foundation, among senior officials of several forest divisions and protected areas of Rajasthan. The main discussion points during the workshop were the systematic monitoring of raptor populations and their nesting habitats to collect data on long-term population trends, developing strong threat mitigation strategies to tackle issues such as poisoning due to NSAIDs and other toxics, plastic contamination of livestock carcasses, and electrocution and collision against power infrastructure. One of the suggested actions included developing a framework for establishing a long-term ecological observatory for monitoring of the species and their habitat parameters. #WWFIndia #workshop #raptor

The snow leopard is found across the mountainous regions of 12 Asian countries, including India. But this majestic big cat is vulnerable to habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, prey depletion, and climate change. On International Snow Leopard Day, support WWF-India in its efforts to save the ghost of the mountains. Click on the link and join the cause: https://lnkd.in/gWM8deK8 #WWFIndia #InternationalSnowLeopardDay #SnowLeopards #Himalayas

A key agenda item at the UN Biodiversity Conference, currently taking place in Colombia, is digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources – essentially, deciding the modalities for benefit sharing from use of digital sequence information of the world’s genetic resources and how it contributes effectively to the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity. At a WWF press conference on the first day of the conference, Vishaish Uppal, Director of Governance, Law, and Policy at WWF-India, emphasized the need for key decisions on how a multilateral benefit-sharing fund will operate. Uppal stressed that the funds must support conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and that the mechanism must follow principles of inclusivity, equity and transparency, while addressing the needs of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, and youth. Stay tuned for updates from this important event! 🌿#COP16Colombia #ActforOurPlanet #WWFIndia