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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 EXTENDED to June 1
http://www.ser2011.org/en/ser2011-scientific-program/call-for-abstracts-posters/
EARLY REGISTRATION Closes June 15
http://www.ser2011.org/en/registration/
NOAA Gulf Spill Restoration Projects: Share Your Ideas
Do you have ideas for a specific restoration project in your area? You can use the online form below to give us the details and your information will be entered into our database. These suggested projects will be retained as part of a database that will be evaluated by the trustees, with public input, for consideration in project-specific restoration plans.
http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/restoration/give-us-your-ideas/suggest-a-restoration-project/
University of Victoria Restoration Institute: Novel Ecosystems - May 27-28, 2011
http://www.restorationinstitute.ca/
An Investment Forum: Mobilizing Private Investment in Trees and Landscape Restoration in Africa - Nairobi 25- 27 May 2011
http://www.profor.info/profor/sites/profor.info/files/FORUM-ADVISORY-NOTE.pdf
Call Open for Ramsar Wetland Awards - Closes May 31, 2011
http://iucn.org/about/union/members/resources/news/?7045/Call-open-for-Ramsar-Wetland-Awards&utm_campaign=1107418314&utm_content=1023835583506&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailvision
University of Victoria Restoration of Natural System (RNS) Program - Summer 2011
http://registrar.uvic.ca/summer/distance/rns.html
Restoration-based Teacher Professional Development Workshop - August 1-5, 2011
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5284397.pdf
Ecosystem Services: Integrating Science and Practice: The Netherlands - October 4-7, 2011
http://www.fsd.nl/esp/77938/5/0/30
Special Issue "Urban Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration" - Deadline Dec 1, 2011
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/urban_bcr/
SER Members receive 25% off Island Press purchases. Contact Caroline Bronaugh at
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People in the News
The banker trying to put a value on nature
Pavan Sukhdev is pushing to create an accounting system that will force companies to assess the damage they're doing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/pavan-sukhdev-valuing-biodiversity-ecosystem-services
Coca-Cola Helps Advance Water Sustainability Projects in the Pacific Region
The Coca-Cola Company will donate $4 million through its Coca-Cola Foundation to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Water Stewardship Program in China and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Yangtze Partnership.
http://eponline.com/articles/2011/05/12/coca-cola-advances-water-sustainability-projects-in-pacific-region.aspx
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| New Books & Articles
Reforestation research in Latin America helps build better forests
A tropical forest is easy to cut down, but getting it back is another story. In a special issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management, leading researchers at the Smithsonian in Panama and across Latin America offer new insights on reforestation based on 20 years of research.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/stri-rri051711.php
Stepping up the ambition for carbon management: a vision for carbon-rich, cross-continental biodiversity corridors
http://www.future-science.com/doi/pdf/10.4155/cmt.11.9
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| Agro-Ecology
Video: Ecological restoration of unexploited agriculture land
The landscape of Israel has been exploited and modified for many centuries. As a result, overall natural biodiversity is greatly reduced. The following is re-naturalization project aimed for examination and demonstration of rehabilitation techniques of formerly agricultural land. The project is part of a community nature park involving the students of Ha-Kefar Ha-Yarok Agriculture and Environment school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9dH-xss8I&feature=related
Video: Farming Shrimp With the Planet in Mind
The film chronicles the lifelong effort by Thornton, an Illinois native transplanted to Belize, to farm shrimp while leaving as small an imprint on ecosystems and waters as possible. She's largely succeeded, as you'll see, and is working with the World Wildlife Fund to try to develop a standard for farm-raised shrimp that can provide consumers with the confidence that they can enjoy this immensely popular seafood and a thriving environment, as well.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/farming-shrimp-with-the-planet-in-mind/
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Restoring the world's forests while feeding the poor
About half the world's forest has been cleared for farming or seriously damaged by logging, fires, drainage, pollution and other ills. But where forests once grew they can grow again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/18/forests-farming-food-land
US National forest rules face controversial overhaul
The Forest Service in its proposed new rules aims at an "adaptive land management" strategy that will allow managers of the nation's 155 national forests to adjust for impacts such as climate change and the need to use forests as resources for not only timber but recreation, water supply, wildlife habitat, mining, wilderness and as building blocks of entire ecosystems. The rules focus not just on timber harvest, but forest restoration.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/05/national-forest-system-planning-rules.html
New Forest Code Could Hinder Climate Goals
"The proposal opens up a lot of gaps," Tasso Azevedo, a forestry engineer and Ministry of Environment consultant on forests and climate, told Tierramérica. In addition to reducing the so-called permanent preservation areas that must be reforested if cleared, it establishes an amnesty for landholders who have illegally cleared forests on their properties. Under the current legislation, they are subject to fines. "This makes it seem as if the law wasn't made to be obeyed," said Azevedo.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55654
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| Wetland Restoration
Wisconsin: Wetland restoration in Stevens Point to fight floods
A former drainage ditch shrouded in forest was reopened Wednesday as a meandering stream making its way though a much-needed open wetland. The Moses Creek restoration helps return a 17-acre swath of northeast Schmeeckle Reserve to a more natural ecosystem.
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20110512/WDH0101/105120531/Wetland-restoration-Stevens-Point-fight-floods |
| Coastal & Marine Restoration
Florida: Ibis Isle muck wasn't caused by county's environmental restoration
A town and a Palm Beach County official both assured the Town Council and Ibis Isle residents Tuesday that a county environmental restoration in the Lake Worth Lagoon did not cause a buildup of smelly, ugly muck near and under the Ibis Way bridge. The residents have complained that the restoration failed because areas north and south of the small bridge, which connects Ibis Isle to Palm Beach island, weren't dredged before mangroves and grasses were planted on low-lying mounds nearby. The project occurred about a year ago.
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/ibis-isle-muck-wasnt-caused-by-countys-environmental-1469605.html |
Wildlife Restoration
Indonesia: Down to 50, conservationists fight to save Javan Rhino from extinction
Earlier this year, the International Rhino Foundation launched "Operation Javan Rhino" to prevent the extinction of the critically endangered Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), formerly found in rain forests across Southeast Asia. Operation Javan Rhino is a multi-layered project which links field conservation, habitat restoration, and management efforts with the interests of local governments and communities.
http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0517-szotek_javan_rhino.html |
| Invasive Species
Canada: Restoring the Devon Lakes
The Devon Lakes have always been a cautionary tale of intruding on nature. In the 1960s, the lakes were stocked with brook trout for the benefit of anglers, but by the 1970s the problem was made clear. The non-native fish began to spread and push out the native species. The whole ecosystem of the area began to change.
http://www.banffcragandcanyon.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3119498 |
| Funding Opportunities
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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