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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Conference declaration SER2016 articulates concerns for the future of ecological restoration in the EU

Conference declaration SER2016 articulates concerns for the future of ecological restoration in the EU (download here)Read More

SER Europe calls for speeding up restoration efforts in the EU

In a Nature Correspondence article we asked to fight the inertia over the implementation of the 15% restoration target to which the EU-Commission and Member States committed themselves in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020.Read More