The official account of the United Nations voluntary alliance working together for mountain peoples and environments. 🏔 #MountainsMatter #Glaciers2025
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🏔️Integrating mountain biodiversity into CBD processes and addressing financing gaps is key for sustainable mountain development.
During a side event at #COP17Armenia, organized with @UNDPPlanet, read what the Mountain Partnership Coordinator, Julia Wolf said⬇️
#MountainsMatter
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📢New initiative launched at COP17!
#COP17Armenia Presidency, @UNBiodiversity, @IUCN & @FAO with support from @theGEF, announced the Yerevan Tech for Biodiversity Monitoring Hub.
@FAODDGMagwenzi outlined the initiative's3️⃣ priorities to help monitor progress towards the #KMGBF:
📢Starting in 1️⃣ hour!
🏔️ Learn how protecting mountain biodiversity is an investment in resilience, livelihoods, and sustainable development at #CBDCOP17, during @UNmountains and @UNDPPlanet's side event at the UN Pavilion.
#MountainsMatter #ForPeopleForPlanet
@UNDP_Eurasia
🏔️Mountains generate most of Earth's freshwater, yet remain among the least protected and least funded ecosystems. In view of this, a global initiative by Armenia and @UNEP was launched at #CBDCOP17 to drive action, in which @UNMountains was a key partner
Photos: ©Arev Grigoryan
Mountain Partnership retweeted
How can we grow food without soil? 🌱💧
This new @FAO & @UNMountains guide introduces students to hydroponics, combining hands-on learning with insights into sustainable food systems and healthier diets.
🔗 ow.ly/Yket50Z6Ib5
Mountain Partnership retweeted
🇺🇳🌱🏔️ Andorra a la @COP17_Arm2026 de biodiversitat.
Participem en el Diàleg d’Alt Nivell per compartir les polítiques de protecció dels ecosistemes de muntanya i reivindicar la importància de preservar la seva biodiversitat.
@UNmountains
#LesMuntanyesImporten #COP17Armenia
🏔️ #MountainEcosystemsDay is happening today at #COP17Armenia
Julia Wolf, Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership, emphasizes the crucial role Indigenous people, local communities, pastoralists, youth and women play in mountain regions🌏️ #MountainsMatter
Read what she said⬇️
Mountain Partnership retweeted
Mountains host most of the world's species of amphibians, birds & mammals.
Plants, animals, insects, microbes & their environment...
Biodiversity is vital to global food production & essential for human well-being.
#MountainsMatter #COP17Armenia
📢Today, 26 October, is #MountainEcosystemsDay at #COP17Armenia
#MountainsMatter for biodiversity, culture, water, food security, climate resilience, livelihoods & more👩🌾💧
⛰️Follow the events online:
🔗cbd.int/conferences/2026/par…
🏔️As #MountainEcosystemsDay at CBD COP 17 approaches, remember that mountains are the world's water towers, supplying freshwater to roughly 1/2 of humanity💧
#MountainsMatter for water, biodiversity, food security and more.🌿🥣
Learn more:
📆 26 October🔗bit.ly/4hKovOA
⛰️Mountain species are highly vulnerable to climate change.
What percentage of endemic mountain species are at risk of extinction?
📌Test your knowledge below!
Learn about the solutions to the unique challenges mountains face on #MountainEcosystemsDay
🔗cbd.int/conferences/2026/par…
50%84%
0%90%
0%10%
50%52%
2 votes • Final results84% is the correct answer!🌄
Up to 84% of endemic mountain species are at risk of extinction, but there is still time to protect mountain ecosystems #MountainsMatter
Learn more & follow along during #MountainEcosystemsDay
🗓️26 October at #COP17Armenia
🔗cbd.int/conferences/2026/par…
Mountain Partnership retweeted
Join us for Mountain Ecosystems Day at #COP17 on 26 October in the GBF Pavilion!
⏲️09:30-18:00 GMT +4
📍GBF Pavilion
👉 Full programme: cbd.int/conferences/2026/par…
🔗Follow it online: us06web.zoom.us/j/8524069909…
#ClimateChange #GlobalBiodiversityFramework #MountainEcosystemsDay
🏔️Bringing mountains forward in global processes is key to protecting the communities and ecosystems that depend on them.
Hear from H.E. Dinara Kemelova, Special Representative of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on the Mountain Agenda🎥⬇️
#MountainsMatter
@FAOKyrgyzstan
#DYK that resilient mountain ecosystems are key for adaptation?
⛰️Learn more about the climate solutions that healthy mountain ecosystems can offer at #MountainEcosystemsDay during CBD COP17.
🗓️26 October at #COP17Armenia
📍GBF Pavilion
🔗cbd.int/conferences/2026/par…
@UNEP
#MountainsMatter for genetic diversity.
How many domestic mammals do you think originated or diversified in mountains⛰️?
📌Test your knowledge below!
Learn more on #MountainEcosystemsDay 🌄
🗓️26 October at #COP17Armenia
🔗cbd.int/conferences/2026/par…
0%More than 🔟
0%4⃣
100%At least 5⃣
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1 votes • Final results🚨10 days until #MountainEcosystemsDay at #COP17Armenia!
🏔️ Protecting mountain biodiversity means safeguarding species, food systems and livelihoods for all.
📅 26 October | GBF Pavilion
🔗 bit.ly/4hKovOA
With @fao, @unep, @unbiodiversity, @icimod
#MountainsMatter
🏔️This #WorldFoodDay, let's remember the importance of mountains for crop diversity and food security.
#DYK that 20 plant species supply 80% of food, and 6 of them originated in mountain regions:
🌽maize,
🥔potatoes,
🍎apples,
🥣barley,
🍅tomatoes,
🍽️& sorghum.
#MountainsMatter
🏔️👩🌾 In mountain regions, more than 50% of women carry out agricultural activities
This International Day of #RuralWomen, we celebrate mountain pastoralist women, whose knowledge, skills & stewardship help sustain some of the world's most vital rangelands🐎🌿
#MountainsMatter
🏔️ Save the date! #CBDCOP17
Join us for “Elevating mountains in CBD processes: programme of work on mountain biodiversity, policy implementation and finance”.
🗓 28 October 2026, 15.00–16.30
📍 UN Pavilion, #COP17Armenia
@UNDPPlanet @UNDP_Eurasia #MountainsMatter #ForNature
