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 RESTORE is a weekly e-bulletin, published by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), 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 members. Please send your news stories and articles to the RESTORE editor at info@ser.org. |
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Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration
SER2011 World Conference on Ecological Restoration
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Closes May 15
http://www.ser2011.org/en/ser2011-scientific-program/call-for-abstracts-posters/
EARLY REGISTRATION Closes June 15
http://www.ser2011.org/en/registration/
SER2011 Awards: Last chance to make nominations
The SER Award nominations are open until Tuesday May 17 2011 and this is the last call for nominees. We seek nominations for four awards: The Theodore M. Sperry Award, the Full Circle Award, the Communications Award, and the John Rieger Award. SER Awards are presented in recognition of meritorious achievement and service for advancing the craft, knowledge, and public awareness of ecological restoration. Recipients may include Society members and others. Please read the individual award criteria carefully, a nomination must meet the award criteria to be considered. Descriptions of the award criteria and a link to the on-line nomination form may be found at:
http://www.ser.org/content/ser_awards_program.asp
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People in the News
Nghe An receives World Biosphere Reserve title
Covering more than 1.3 million hectares bordering Laos , the Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve is the only remaining area in the northern region with unexplored primary forests. It is the largest Biosphere Reserve in Vietnam and South East Asia. Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve was firstly recognized by UNESCO in 2007, and it is among 564 biosphere reserves in 109 countries in the world.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/environment/7807/nghe-an-receives-world-biosphere-reserve-title.html |
| Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
Our limited forests of infinite value
A restoration economy would also find obvious ways to rehabilitate degraded and eroded farm land, and clean polluted waterways. Governments all over the world could take a first step toward peace by recognizing wars as blasphemy unfit for a society threatened with what is rapidly becoming the likelihood of extinction. Renewing the integrity of Planet Earth is a prime requisite for development of a lasting civilization.
http://rabble.ca/news/2011/05/our-limited-forests-infinite-value
Policy and Biodiversity: A Price Tag on Biodiversity and Ecosystems
In part 1 of this essay, we examined the poor job our current free market system does of putting a value on benefits we receive from the natural world, and incorporating those benefits into the prices we pay for goods and services. In part 2, I will propose some policies that might help correct the current momentum. To effectively internalize the costs of losing the ecological richness we have enjoyed to date in America and elsewhere, I would suggest that we need a combination of stronger regulatory controls over the protection of natural areas along with economic disincentives for consumers whose actions degrade biodiversity and the health of ecosystems.
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/05/04/policy-and-biodiversity-a-price-tag-on-biodiversity-and-ecosystems-part-2-of-2/ |
| Wetland Restoration
Pitching in: Students part of wetlands restoration project
The same students at work on the project previously raised Chinook salmon in their classroom and released them on the American River, Ezzell said. Raising the fish, he said, gave the students a good example of why its important to be good stewards of the environment.
http://www.theunion.com/article/20110505/NEWS/110509832/1066&parentprofile=1053
North Carolina: Scientists restore rare bog habitat in Flat Rock
Today, the Ochlawaha bog is starting to take shape. After buying the 30-acre tract for $350,000 in 2009 and conveying it to the state, the conservancy, along with state and federal agencies, cleared the land to reveal the wetland underneath. The $500,000 restoration project re-established the stream to its original location, and native plants and trees have been replanted. Instead of rows of tomato plants, the land has taken on its original swampy feel, and birds, ducks and turtles are starting to inhabit the area.
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110507/NEWS/305070025/Tomato-farm-bog-Scientists-restore-ancient-area?odyssey=nav%7Chead
NOAA Video on Wetland Restoration
http://oceantoday.noaa.gov/wetlandsrestoration/ |
River & Watershed Restoration
Oregon: Habitat restoration soars on Columbia River, but fish benefits are murky
It's likely the biggest restoration effort in the nation, from the Columbia's mouth to tributaries deep into eastern Oregon, Idaho and Washington. If it works, it could help lift the fish off the endangered species list, dim the spotlight on dams and reduce demands for Snake River dam removal. But translating the effort into hard fish survival numbers that will satisfy the court is another story.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/05/will_habitat_improvementsbe_en.html |
Wildlife Restoration
$4.3 Million for Neotropical Migratory Birds and Habitat Conservation
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today more than $4.3 million in grants for 34 projects that will support neotropical migratory bird conservation throughout the Western Hemisphere. Matched by more than $15.1 million in additional funds from partners, the projects will support habitat restoration, environmental education, population monitoring, and other priority activities within the ranges of neotropical migratory birds in the United States, Canada, Mexico and 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
http://gardennews.biz/?id=5677 |
| Funding Opportunities
Marine and Anadromous Sportfish Habitat Restoration Grants - Closes May 16, 2011
The FishAmerica Foundation, the conservation and research foundation of the American Sportfishing Association, through its partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Restoration Center, has $1 million available for marine and anadromous sportfish habitat restoration projects in the coastal United States, the Great Lakes region and the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
http://www.fishamerica.org/grants/
Terra Viva Grants develops and manages information about grants for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resources in the world's developing countries.
http://www.terravivagrants.org/Home/view-grant-makers
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
Tamarisk Related Grant Opportunities
The Tamarisk Coalition has developed a list of available Grant Opportunities to address tamarisk issues and riparian restoration. This list was revised as part of the Colorado River Basin Tamarisk and Russian Olive Assessment.
http://www.tamariskcoalition.org/FundingResources.html |
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