Join us in our next joint webinar with Forest Restoration Talks! SER has co-authored a new set of “Standards of Practice to Guide Ecosystem Restoration”, launched this year in partnership with the FAO and IUCN as a contribution to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Through its Mediterranean Forest Restoration Certification Pilot Project, SER is developing and testing a new “seal of approval” for forest restoration, aiming to verify the quality of field-based restoration projects, providing guidance, structure, and an auditing process for ecological restoration. The project has started in the Mediterranean region and, if successful, will expand to other geographies worldwide. 

Meet George Gann, SER’s International Policy Lead, will present insights from the Mediterranean project and an overview of the new Standards of Practice, discussing how they can support the design, implementation, and funding of restoration actions. He will be joined by Dr Michael Kleine, Deputy Executive Director & Coordinator at IUFRO’s Special Programme for Development of Capacities who will provide views from a science and training perspective concerning existing forest-related restoration guidelines and share experiences with implementing some of these on the ground.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vTB35ecNQT-1s2H2ar45Zg#/registration

The webinar will be moderated by Magda Bou Dagher-Kharrat, Principal scientist at the Mediterranean Facility of the European Forest Institute and coordinator of the SUPERB project and Andreas Bolte, coordinator of the IUFRO Task Force “Transforming Forest Landscapes for Futures Climates and Human Well-Being”.