SER Europe collaborates in a Course of Soil Restoration in Mining Sites, Barcelona, June 2021
SER Europe is partnersing with the University of Barcelona through our member CREAF in communication activities of this course. The course will be held in Spanish (on-line) two afternoons a week between 31st of May and 29th July 2021. Full details, english abstract and registration fees: 210531_CourseUB_MiningSoilRes.Read More
SERE presents at the European Parliament debate on Nature Restoration Targets
SERE Chair Jordi Cortina presented today April 13 the view of the expert sector on the need for binding targets of ecological restoration in the EU in a pannel including members of the European Parliament, a representative of the European Commission, BirdLife Europe, and the European Landowners Organisation. Full Programme. SERE expressed the need for […]Read More
Celebrate the starting of UN Ecosystem Restoration Decade locally by Making a Difference!
Check out the events section to know how your university, research centre, company, NGO, municipality or any other can celebrate the Make a Difference Week with all SER International community, as part of the starting of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Get involved! Read More
SERE participates on new publication: “Handbooks to Improve the Birds and Habitats Directives Implementation”
SERE has been part of the team producing two new handbooks on Evidence‐based Improvements in the Birds and Habitats Directives Implementation (E-BIND) commissioned by the European Parliament. The handbooks focus on Guidance for improving the availability of data and information on species, habitats and sites (Focus area A) and Scientific support for successful implementation of […]Read More
SERE at the European Commission meeting on Impact Assessment of EU binding Ecological Restoration targets towards 2030
This first stakeholder workshop happened in parallel to the currently public consultation on Ecological restoration Targets open up to April 5th 2021. SERE was represented in this first workshop by Jordi Cortina (Chair) and Kris Decleer (Board member). Future stakeholder meetings will be dedicated to definitions, engagement, financing and implementation of directives, with no fixed […]Read More
Our contribution to the EU nature restoration targets
SERE has submitted a feedback position document on the “Protecting biodiversity: nature restoration targets under EU biodiversity strategy” Roadmap on the open consultation period. Partner organisations, EFIB, CIREF, REVER, REAEET and SPECO have jointly signed the document with SERE. This consultation is on the framework of the new EU Bidioversity Strategy 2030, and towards the […]Read More
Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is Everyone’s Responsibility- Call to action by 8th World Conference
Cape Town, South Africa, 28 September 2019: Delegates at the 8th World Conference on Ecological Restoration have expressed their unanimous support for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021 – 2030 with a call to action: ‘One earth, one future, one chance.’ At the conference, more than 850 knowledge holders from 68 countries shared […]Read More
Second edition of the International Principles and Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—Concurrent with this week’s call to action on climate at the United Nations and around the world, today the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) and partners released the second edition of the International Principles and Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration. Introduced in 2016, the Standards establish norms to guide the development and […]Read More
Portuguese Network for Ecological Restoration affiliated with SER Europe
Rede Portuguesa de Restauro Ecológico. The Portuguese Network for Ecological Restoration was created in 2019 and made official on 2nd August 2019, by signing a memorandum of understanding between the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe and the Portuguese Society of Ecology – SPECO (http://www.speco.pt/pt/), at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, at the […]Read More
CIEEM (the UK Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) affiliated with SER Europe
The UK Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management is now affiliated with SER Europe. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in July. CIEEM promotes the highest standards of practice for the benefit of nature and society in the UK. This agreement will allow for reciprocal supporting, promoting and diffusing of SER Europe and CIEEM […]Read More