{"id":57,"date":"2023-08-15T22:11:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T02:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/?p=57"},"modified":"2025-04-12T18:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T22:41:22","slug":"launch-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/2023\/08\/15\/launch-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Natural Regeneration Webinar Launches SER\u2019s NR Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of June, 2023, the Society for Ecological Restoration\u2019s Natural Regeneration Network (SER-NRN) held its \u2018launch\u2019 webinar, titled \u2018Communities harnessing natural regeneration in ecological restoration \u2013 case studies from \u00a0around the world.\u00a0 This webinar will remain Open Access through the SER Webinar Library at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ser.org\/news\/644803\/Communities-harnessing-natural-regeneration-in-ecological-restoration--case-studies-from-around-the.htm\">this link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.ser.org\/news\/644803\/Communities-harnessing-natural-regeneration-in-ecological-restoration&#8211;case-studies-from-around-the.htm<\/p>\n<p>The webinar\u2019s four speakers provided insights into their work using regeneration approaches &#8211; spanning four continents.\u00a0 The first speaker, the widely published Robin Chazdon, shared insights about the natural successional recovery trajectories that occur in the wet tropical forests of <strong>Costa Rica<\/strong> after the adoption of policies to reduce livestock grazing in some agricultural lands. The Second speaker, Tony Rinaudo from World Vision, provided an extraordinary description of how he and local farmers in the <strong>Niger Republic <\/strong>and<strong> Ethiopia<\/strong> developed a system of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration that turned desertified landscapes back into productive native vegetation communities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63\" src=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-2048x1154.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-2000x1127.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-450x254.jpg 450w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-1500x846.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-1300x733.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/files\/2023\/08\/Rinaudo-Discovery-Slide-FMNR-LR-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The third speaker, Ray Thompson, illustrated how the ingenious technique of <em>water ponding<\/em> triggered eroded <strong>Australia<\/strong> claypans to regenerate with native plants despite being bare for over a century. The fourth speaker Anand Krishnamurthy from <strong>southern India<\/strong> (speaking on behalf of himself and Ramesh Venkataraman) illustrated how the Junglescapes Trust works with villagers to achieve substantial revegetation success in degraded lands after a range of treatments to trigger natural regeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of June, 2023, the Society for Ecological Restoration\u2019s Natural Regeneration Network (SER-NRN) held its \u2018launch\u2019 webinar, titled \u2018Communities harnessing natural regeneration in ecological restoration \u2013 case studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-webinars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/naturalregeneration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}