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
German Restoration Network affiliated with SER Europe
German Restoration Network affiliated with SER Europe. During their fourth network meeting on 26th of June 2019, the Memorandum of Understanding between the “Netzwerk Renaturierung – German Restoration Network” (GRN) and the European Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration for obtaining affiliated membership status was signed. The network meeting was organised in cooperation with […]Read More
Priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe workshop
Fragmentation and loss of habitat have been identified as key factors hampering biodiversity conservation in Europe. Experts are currently gathering at a two-day workshop hosted at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge to focus on identifying key knowledge gaps for restoration that creates connected landscapes, rich in biodiversity and resilient to climate change. Priority questions […]Read More
SER Europe ‘friend of Eurosite’
On 3 October SER Europe signed a collaboration agreement with Eurosite. Eurosite is the European network of nature management practitioners. More info: http://eurosite.org/eurosite-news/new-friend-eurosite-ser-europe/Read More
Get acquainted with the Landcare project
Get acquainted with the Landcare project LANDCARE “Land Degradation and Rehabilitation in Mediterranean Environments” is an international project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (2015-2018). The overall objective of LANDCARE is to improve training capacities in relation to Land Degradation and Rehabilitation (LD&R) in Southern Europe, in order to fulfil the demands […]Read More
SER2014 outcome: 2 special issues published in Environment Science and Pollution Research and Ecology and Society
Two special issues from SER2014 Conference were completed. Karel Prach and Anne Tolvanen put together the one entitled ‘ How can we restore biodiversity and ecosystem services in mining and industrial sites?’ for Environment Science and Pollution Research volume 23 number 14, containing 16 articles, and Anne Tolvanen and James Aronson coordinated ‘Ecological Restoration, ecosystem services […]Read More
European nature directives saved ! EU will invest in better implementation.
European nature directives saved ! EU will invest in better implementation. The Freising Declaration of SER Europe was well received by the European Commission. After 2 years of studying, intense lobbying by the major conservation NGO’s of Europe and with the support of more than 500,000 European citizens and a majority in the European Parliament, the […]Read More