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 RESTORE is a weekly e-bulletin, published by SER International, linking you to the latest, breaking news stories from around the world keeping you up-to-date on a wide variety of topics related to ecological restoration including the latest funding opportunities. RESTORE is free to SER International members or can be subscribed to for only $20/year by visiting: www.ser.org/content/restoration_network.asp. Please send your news stories and articles to the RESTORE editor at info@ser.org. | |
Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration
Get Involved/Community-based Restoration
Alabama: Volunteers Needed for Dune Restoration
The Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge located on the Fort Morgan peninsula is a true gem for the state. It's name literally means "safe harbor" and it is just that for hundreds of migratory birds, sea turtles, and an amazing diversity of flora and other wildlife. The Friends of Bon Secour are looking for volunteers to help with dune restoration. Please read the following article from the Mobile Press Register and please consider volunteering if you can. http://lahiker.blogspot.com/2010/06/bon-secour-national-wildlife-refuge.html
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People in the News
Jonathan Wild, the tree planter
Jonathan Wild, chairman of Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate, set up the Yorkshire Rainforest Project, which aims to preserve an area of rainforest the size of Yorkshire in the Peruvian Amazon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/conservation/7797948/Jonathan-Wild-the-tree-planter.html |
| New Books & Articles
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land
The first practical guidebook to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientific training or background the "how to" information and knowledge they need to plan and implement ecological restoration activities. The book sets forth a step-by-step process for developing, implementing, monitoring, and refining on-the-ground restoration projects that is applicable to a wide range of landscapes and ecosystems. http://islandpress.org/bookstore/details6d13-2.html?prod_id=2015
Fossil-fuel use and feeding world cause greatest environmental impacts: UNEP panel
How the world is fed and fueled will in large part define development in the 21st century as one that is increasingly sustainable or a dead end for billions of people. A new and hard-hitting report concludes that dramatically reforming, re-thinking and redesigning two sectors-energy and agriculture-could generate significant environmental, social and economic returns. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/udot-ffu053010.php
Coral transplantation the simple and cheap solution to reef restoration
It is a question asked by marine scientists from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Barrier Reef; how best to restore coral reefs and marine habitat once it has been damaged or even killed? Now research published in Restoration Ecology reveals how 'transplantation' may be a cheap and simple solution that can be used by conservation volunteers to repair damaged reefs. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/w-ctt060210.php
Dead planet, living planet: Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration for sustainable development
Biodiversity and ecosystems deliver crucial services to humankind - from food security to keeping our waters clean, buffering against extreme weather, providing medicines to recreation and adding to the foundation of human culture. Together these services have been estimated to be worth over 21-72 trillion USD every year - comparable to the World Gross National Income of 58 trillion USD in 2008. http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/dead-planet/
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| Agro-Ecology
Priortizing restoration across agricultural landscapes
In highly fragmented and degraded landscapes, habitat conservation often requires large-scale ecosystem restoration. Yet, in agricultural areas comprised of a large number of privately owned properties, individual restoration projects are often implemented without a systematic approach to coordinate and prioritize efforts. To address this issue, Bill Thompson from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources presents a planning method for prioritizing ecosystem restoration efforts across an agricultural region. The methodology borrows from the conservation planning literature on prioritizing land protection. http://www.conservationmaven.com/frontpage/priortizing-restoration-across-agricultural-landscapes.html |
| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Politics is a key factor in biodiversity
Political decisions are among the main driving forces that influence the survival of biodiversity. They have a direct impact on decisions in key areas of man's interaction with nature and the countryside, e.g. through agriculture, traffic or infrastructure policies. These decisions also influence many relevant socio-economic processes underlying human activities, writes an international team of scientists in the "Atlas of Biodiversity Risk", the first of its kind to be published. http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=19708
New UN climate chief calls for more ambition
The incoming head of the UN climate convention has said rich nations must pledge bigger emission cuts if climate change is to be tackled effectively. But Christiana Figueres said she was confident that leaders would meet the challenge "because humanity has to meet it - we don't have another option." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10276225.stm |
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Vermont: Elm Trees Planted In Hopes Of RestorationThree sites in Vermont are part of a project to restore the iconic elm tree to the eastern United States. The U.S. Forest Service has spent decades searching for wild American elms that are resistant to Dutch elm disease, which killed an estimated 100 million American elm trees in the mid 20th century. Trees that were propagated in a nursery in Ohio will be planted in Cornwall on Tuesday, Maidstone on Wednesday and Shelburne on Thursday in the first attempt at restoring American elms into natural areas east of the Appalachians. If successful in Vermont, more plantings will be done at sites across the eastern United States. http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/88214/ |
| Wetland Restoration
Ducks Unlimited raises funds for restoration projects
A former hayfield along San Pablo Bay west of Vallejo will be restored into a marsh through a $1.65 million grant awarded through Ducks Unlimited, it was announced Wednesday. Ducks Unlimited received $10.2 million for a variety of marsh, riparian and public access projects through several California conservation grants agencies and other partners. The Cullinan Ranch restoration project within the Napa-Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area along Highway 37 will receive $1.65 million. http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_15226106
Ohio: Re-Piecing Our Wetlands
"Wetlands restoration is like reassembling a giant ... jigsaw puzzle, one little piece at a time," once remarked a Toledo Blade environmental writer. Well, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday it is committing $1.8 million put some of those pieces back together. The money will fund the protection and restoration of more than 1,500 acres of wetlands and wildlife habitat in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. Of those funds, $150,013 will support the restoration of Magee Marsh, along Lake Erie's western basin in northwestern Ohio. http://newrealnews.com/3522/re-piecing-our-wetlands/ |
| Lake Restoration
India: Bio-diversity - Connecting with Nature
Speaking about the rich natural heritage of the state, the Chief Minister said Nature has endowed Orissa with a rich biological diversity. Strategies for conservation of biodiversity have comprised providing special status and protection to biodiversity rich areas by designating them as national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and biosphere reserves, and ecologically fragile and sensitive areas. The largest Ramsar sites of India i.e. Chilika Lake and Bhitarkanika `are located in our state. Chilika Lake is a striking example of how restoration of the ecological characteristics of a Lake can result not only in increased biodiversity but also in spectacular increase in fish catches and other socio-economic benefits to the local communities. http://www.odiaa.com/2010/06/world-environment-day-celebrated-in-orissa-state-focuses-on-strategies-for-conservation-of-biodiversity-says-cm/ |
| Coastal & Marine Restoration
Don't Just Plant A Tree, Plant A Fish
In the words of Fabien Cousteau, a third-generation ocean explorer, documentary filmmaker, and grandson of the legendary Jacques Yves Cousteau, "there is no Planet B." With oceans making up 70% of the Earth, Fabien Cousteau felt there were too few programs that concentrate on saving our oceans. Drawing on commercials which advocate planting trees, Fabien created the organization, Plant A Fish (PAF), "an active, hands-on outdoor education and restoration experience." http://wildlifeprofessional.org/blog/?p=2243
Florida: RAE and NOAA Celebrate a Decade of Restoration Success
Ten years ago in the summer of 2000, I planted my very first plug of marsh grass as an intern working for Tampa Bay Watch. Little did I know at the time, but that project marked the beginning of what would become a public-private partnership involving tens of thousands of volunteers and hundreds of partners around the country working together to restore thousands of acres of coastal habitat. https://www.estuaries.org/rae-and-noaa-celebrate-a-decade-of-restoration-success.html |
Wildlife Restoration
Ohio: The Wilds Celebrates New Facility
The Wilds is adding a new facility to its 10,000 acres of land. It held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of its brand new Conservation Science Training Center. "There isn't anything like this where you have land restoration and wildlife restoration. It really not only touches this unique spot on the globe in southeast Ohio, but almost every country in the world has problems with the wildlife coming back and with their land that's being destroyed, "says Hocking College Senior Vice President, Roy Palmer. Thanks to funding from several donors and patrons, the dream to build this new center became a reality. http://www.whiznews.com/content/news/local/2010/06/08/the-wilds-celebrates-new-facility |
| Funding Opportunities
California: Ecosystem Restoration on Agricultural Lands (ERAL) Grant funding applications are accepted on a year-round basis. The WCB meets four times each year, normally in February, May, August, and November to consider approval of funding for projects. http://www.wcb.ca.gov/ERAL/grants.html
Ohio: Funds made available for landowners - Closes July 1, 2010 The funds will be made available to agricultural producers and landowners through the Environmental Quality Incentives; Wildlife Habitat Incentives; the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection; and the Emergency Watershed Protection Floodplain Easement programs. More than $34 million will be offered in the eight Great Lakes states. Ohio's share is $6.4 million. Applications will be ranked according to impact, wildlife habitat restoration and protection and prime farmland preservation. Ohio watersheds affect Lake Erie more than those in any other state. http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20100604/NEWS01/6040310
CIAP Protection and Restoration of Critical Forested Habitats - Closes July 31, 2010 Approximately $16M of the CIAP funds allocated to the state of Louisiana are being used to develop and implement a Coastal Forest Conservation Initiative (CFCI) to conserve critical coastal forest habitat for storm damage reduction and the protection and restoration of rare, declining, or ecologically significant habitats. http://www.lacpra.org/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&nid=72&pnid=2&pid=61&fmid=0&catid=0&elid=0 |
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