Katrien Wuyts
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Katrien Wuyts
@katrienwuyts.bsky.social
Content producer, WWF-Belgium 🐼
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(FR 👇)🌍 Earth Hour komt eraan!

🫴Geef in maart jouw uur voor de natuur en laten we samen al deze inspanningen tijdens Earth Hour vieren 💚!

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🌍 Earth Hour arrive à grand pas !

🫴Donnez une heure à la nature en mars et célébrons ensemble tous ces efforts lors de Earth Hour 💚 !

👉 wwf.be/earthhour
March 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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✅ First update on #COP16 in Rome: the Cali Fund is officially launched, which is a historical moment for people and nature 👏👏 50% of the fund is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples and local communities to support actions for implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework. #RestoreNature #COP16Resumed
February 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🗯️ "It has to happen now, without an agreement we take steps backward" 👉 Today the important UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16) resumes in Rome. Laurence Drèze and Reine Spiessens, biodiversity experts from @wwf.be, are interviewed about it by @vrtnws.be this morning. #RestoreNature #2030targets 🌱
VN-top over natuurbescherming hervat in Rome: wat staat er op het spel (behalve veel geld)?
www.vrt.be
February 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Our reaction to the Belgian Federal Government Agreement to read in @lalibre.be this morning (FR)👇

"Cet accord passe à côté de 14 milliards d’€, qui auraient pu être investis pour rendre notre économie plus durable".
"Pratiquement aucune ambition pour la nature et le climat": les critiques des associations sur le volet climat de l'Arizona
Les six pages consacrées au climat et à l'environnement dans l'accord du gouvernement fédéral peinent à convaincre les associations de préservation de la nature.
www.lalibre.be
February 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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What does the new Federal Government Agreement means for the economy and the environment?
Our Policy & Business Director, Julie Vandenberghe, was interviewed in the evening news of RTL INFO (FR)👇
www.rtl.be/page-videos/...
February 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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The new Belgian federal government wants to reduce the tax deductibility of donations from 45% to 30%, threatening the funding of numerous associations in many sectors.

🗞️"Nous espérons que le gouvernement se ressaisira et abandonnera ce projet", says our CEO Caroline Tsilikounas in @lesoir.be👇 (FR)
Moins d’incitations fiscales, moins de dons : l’Arizona met la société civile en émoi (infographies)
Le gouvernement fédéral veut réduire la déductibilité fiscale des dons de 45 % à 30 %, menaçant le financement de nombreuses associations dans de nombreux secteurs.
www.lesoir.be
February 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🚨 WWF-Belgium’s reaction to the Federal Government Agreement: clear lack of ambition for nature & climate 🌿

👉 This lack of ambition is especially disappointing as this will be the last federal government with the chance to make a real difference by 2030 for our citizens, nature, and the climate.
February 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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If Arizona lowers the tax benefit for donors to 30%, it would:

👩‍👧‍👦Impact +1mio people that support NGOs each year
✊Impact budgets of NGOs and, with that, their operations
🦁Mean less protection and support for the beneficiaries of NGOs, be it people, animals or nature

www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
'Verlaagde fiscale aftrek voor giften? Impact van deze "kleinere" maatregel is enorm'
Volgens berichten in de pers, staat in het ontwerp van regeerakkoord van de Arizonacoalitie, tussen een reeks – zogenaamde “kleinere” – maatregelen, een
www.knack.be
January 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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You signed our open letter - we delivered it to our political leaders

In this letter, we asked our government to take care of Belgian nature and biodiversity. We asked them for concrete actions with a sufficient budget.

Nature is our ally. Thanks to you, WWF can make sure this message is heard. 💚
January 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🎪🎡🎠
President Donald Trump late yesterday said he may consider rejoining the World Health Organization — days after signing an executive order announcing America's intention to leave.
Trump floats reversing decision to leave WHO
“Maybe we would consider doing it again. … Maybe we would have to clean it up a little bit,” Trump tells a rally in Las Vegas.
www.politico.eu
January 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This is what we mean when we talk about corporate greed: Starbucks gave its CEO $96 million for just 4 months of work. Meanwhile, Starbucks is refusing to offer a raise of more than 50 cents an hour to 12,000 union workers.

That's unacceptable. Starbucks must end their greed.
January 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I absolutely LOVED Flow 🖤🐈‍⬛️ not a word spoken in the entire film, yet it's telling us so much.
The #Oscars nominees for Best International Feature Film are…

I’m Still Here
The Girl with the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow
January 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
By protecting an umbrella species like the jaguar, we're protecting so much more 🫶
Ecosystem services like ...
💧 clean water
🍃 fresh air
🏭 carbon storage
➕️ and more
provided by jaguar habitats in Latin America are worth up to USD 4 trillion a year. 🤯

NL: shorturl.at/QL6yd
FR: shorturl.at/e6gGo
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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“Yesterday we witnessed the inauguration of a man whose ideology embodies everything the EU was founded to reject”

“Standing up to Trump will come at a cost, but it is much less than letting this poison win”

“Europe must resist because our history demands it”

- My Speech on Trump’s inauguration
January 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is in line with his other recent actions ... Let's just call it what it is, and that is NOT an awkward gesture out of excitement.
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🤦‍♂️💀 ugh pretending climate change doesn't exist is getting old quite frankly
President Donald Trump will withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement for the second time, delivering a blow to the effort to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.

🔗 www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🙌 10 victories for nature in 2024!

🚀 We launched a new project in Pomio
🔍 We discovered 1000+ new species
🐺 We installed a record amount of wolf-deterrent fences
🦍 We celebrated 13 newborn gorillas
...read on via the links in the comments.

Excited for what 2025 will bring 🤩
#TogetherPossible
January 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And that's the tale of how all major social media apps were taken over by the right wing ...
As TikTok fights a federal law that bans it in the U.S. unless it is sold, it publicly referenced and thanked President-elect Donald Trump for his support in statements and videos since Friday. It even built its flattery directly into the app so its 170 million American users could see it.
TikTok Butters Up Trump as It Navigates a Ban in the U.S.
The app has repeatedly name checked the president-elect in pop-up messages and statements, as it navigates a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM