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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
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. http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/restoration/give-us-your-ideas/suggest-a-restoration-project/
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
caroline@ser.org for details!
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| New Books & Articles
La Société internationale pour la restauration écologique, une association pour promouvoir la restauration des écosystèmes au niveau mondial
Zoom sur une association dédiée à l'organisation et à la promotion au niveau mondial des relations entre gestionnaires, praticiens, étudiants et scientifiques œuvrant dans les domaines de l'écologie de la restauration et de la restauration écologique.
http://www.set-revue.fr/la-societe-internationale-pour-la-restauration-ecologique-une-association-pour-promouvoir-la-restaur
Book Excerpt: 'Intelligent Tinkering' By Robert Cabin
Hawaii is home to one of the world's last dry tropical forests. In their prime, these magnificent ecosystems were bastions of biodiversity. Now, only 10 percent of the state's original dry forests survive. In Intelligent Tinkering, Robin Cabin, an associate professor of ecology and environmental science at Brevard College and a former restoration ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service, draws on his own experience in doing restoration work in the few remaining Hawai'ian dry forests.
http://magblog.audubon.org/book-excerpt-intelligent-tinkering-robert-cabin |
| Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
New report highlights diversity and value of Alaska's coastal forests
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/ufsp-nrh060111.php A new report published by the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station presents summaries of current southeast and south-central Alaska forest topics, ranging from carbon and forest products to lichens and invasive species. |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Video: Regenerating Forests with Traditional Knowledge
Regenerating Forests with Traditional Knowledge Narrator: In the forest of Costa Rica, children are encouraged to learn the tradition of local plant knowledge from their elders and to carry along. A recent study found that it was small communities like this one who is responsible for most tree planting and the reforestation essential for the regeneration of the forest.
http://video.ezinemark.com/regenerating-forests-with-traditional-knowledge-4321eb70b14.html |
| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Tropical savanna 'can be carbon farmed'
In a first for the federal government's Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI), indigenous land managers in remote regions of the north are being told they may be able to earn carbon credits for improving fire management. A vast swathe of dense grass and scattered trees constitute the tropical savanna that stretches across northern Australia from Broome to Townsville.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/tropical-savanna-can-be-carbon-farmed/story-e6frf7jx-1226062583017
A new eye on biodiversity
For tropical ecologist Greg Asner, it's all about seeing the forest through its trees. Over the past two years, he and his team at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, have used world-class tree climbers, bows and arrows, and even shotguns to gather samples of vegetation from forest canopies around the globe. They have created a digital catalogue of the chemical and optical properties of some 4,700 plant species in different conditions. Now comes the moment of truth.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110601/full/474013a.html
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Brazil: BNDES approves three Atlantic Forest restoration projects in the amount of R$ 11.8 million
The Board of Directors of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has approved support for three Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) reforestation projects in the amount of R$ 11.8 million.
http://www.bndes.gov.br/SiteBNDES/bndes/bndes_en/Institucional/Press/Noticias/2011/20110526_mataatlantica.html
Forest fragmentation threatens Europe, species: UN
Fires, felling and agriculture are whittling Europe's forests down into isolated patches, threatening to speed up desertification and deplete wildlife, a UN report warned Tuesday. Isolated forest patches, caused through what is called fragmentation, are more vulnerable to climate change and threaten biodiversity, the United Nations Environment Programme report said. They are also less able "to stabilise soils and supply sufficient water to the cities, companies and communities that rely on such ecosystems," it said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gVAmUAyEjBl4GBpCPUYCts0MFH3g?docId=CNG.4731b3aba4df7bc97fe661f788f35488.a61
Madagascar Moves to Protect Precious Forests
Madagascar's Ministry of Environment is heralding the success of a crackdown on illegal logging, notably in the country's northeast where vast protected areas have been the focus of huge trafficking scandals. The ministry says more than 1,000 precious rosewood logs have been seized in the last two weeks of policing, and that members of a so-called "logging mafia" will face trial. Conservationists welcome the move, but worry it may be temporary after recent warnings to the World Bank about the unchecked plunder of protected areas.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Madagascar-Moves-to-Protect-Precious-Forests-122883074.html |
| Wetland Restoration
Texas: Wetland restoration set to start
Six years ago, Ron Skjeveland decided the chronic problems caused by repetitive flooding were too much for his cozy farmstead along the Cedar River in south Austin. Following record flooding in 2004, Skjeveland started a process to convert his country home and cropland back to a natural setting as part of the Austin area's ongoing flood-mitigation efforts along the Cedar River. http://www.postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1455745 |
River & Watershed Restoration
Minnesota: Final stage of habitat restoration project underway
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is again restoring the islands on the Mississippi River. The St. Paul District is continuing construction of its final phase of its Pool 8 Islands Habitat Restoration project on the Mississippi. The corps says the project's goal is to revive fish and wildlife habitat by restoring islands that have eroded or disappeared near Brownsville, Minnesota.
http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/Final_stage_of_habitat_restoration_project_underway_122846414.html |
| Grassland Restoration
China: Inner Mongolia establishes grassland ecological compensation mechanism
China's State Council decided in October 2010 to establish a grasslands ecological protection subsidies and awards mechanism in eight main grasslands stock raising areas in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region between 2011 and 2015.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7396449.html |
| Coastal & Marine Restoration
Shell Oil Company Contributes Half-Million To Gulf Coast Restoration
Shell Oil Company recently donated $250,000 to Ducks Unlimited, reaching the half-million dollar mark in their support of DU's ongoing efforts to protect and restore rapidly disappearing coastal wetland habitats in Louisiana. "The Gulf Coast has long been a top priority for Ducks Unlimited," Bob Dew, DU manager of conservation programs in Louisiana, said. "Louisiana's coastal habitat is essential to sustaining North American waterfowl populations, and the area remains an important part of North America's waterfowling heritage."
http://www.ammoland.com/2011/05/25/shell-oil-company-contributes-half-million-to-gulf-coast-restoration/ |
Wildlife Restoration
Italy: Project on ecological connectivity of the SE Sicily-Gozo
SIMBIOTIC is an environmental restoration project aiming at enhancing the ecological connectivity of the SE Sicily-Gozo transboundary migratory route through ecological restoration, improved area management, integrated environmental planning and policy and enhanced local environmental consciousness. Restoration interventions will be designed based on an assessment of local plant, animal and habitat components, an analysis of landscape changes and the identification of priority connectivity areas.
http://gozonews.com/17854/project-on-ecological-connectivity-of-the-se-sicily-gozo/ |
| Invasive Species
Oregon: Bringing 'balance' to nature
Members of the Klamath Tribes are thinning trees and pulling out invasive plants in Ashland and elsewhere in the the Rogue Valley - honing the skills that could help them regain and manage their ancestral homelands in the Klamath Basin. "We're hoping to restore the land if we get it back," said Klamath Tribes member Bo Parkins as he paused for lunch during a blackberry eradication project along the choked banks of Bear Creek in Medford. http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110526/NEWS02/105260304/-1/NEWSMAP
Washington: Microsoft employees restore Lake Sammamish State Park habitat
Microsoft helped the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust reboot Issaquah Creek habitat May 20. More than 60 employees from the software giant's campus along East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast in Issaquah gathered at Lake Sammamish State Park.
http://www.issaquahpress.com/2011/05/24/microsoft-employees-restore-lake-sammamish-state-park-habitat/
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| 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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