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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
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/
Ecosystem Services: Integrating Science and Practice: The Netherlands - October 4-7, 2011
http://www.fsd.nl/esp/77938/5/0/30
SER Southeast Chapter 2011 Annual Symposium "New Trajectories and References for Ecological Recovery": October 17-21, 2011
http://www.ser.org/cpc/events.asp
Selecting Wetland Mitigation Sites Using a Watershed Approach - October 18, 2011
http://www.coastaltraining-wa.org/Course-Catalog/Shoreline-And-Environmental-Laws-And-Administrativ/Selecting-Wetland-Mitigation-Sites-Using-a-Watersh/53.aspx
Understanding Washington State's Stream Habitat Restoration Guidelines - November 16-17, 2011
http://www.coastaltraining-wa.org/Course-Catalog/Shoreline-And-Environmental-Laws-And-Administrativ/Understanding-Washington-State's-Stream-Habitat-Re/32.aspx
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! The National Estuarine Research Reserves and the NOAA Restoration Center are assessing training needs for habitat restoration practitioners who work in coastal areas around the nation. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ecologicalrestorationNA |
| New Books & Articles
Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil
A new study shows that as climate change enhances tree growth in tropical forests, the resulting increase in litterfall could stimulate soil micro-organisms leading to a release of stored soil carbon. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/cfe-itf081211.php |
| Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
Why We Should Put a Price Tag on Ecosystem Services
A recent article in the New York Times about the work Stanford University biology professor Gretchen Daily is doing in Africa and Costa Rica highlights the importance of ecosystem services, or putting a value on ecosystems. Daily co-founded the Natural Capitalism Project (NCP) in November 2006. NCP, as Daily told the New York Times, works to "quantify in biophysical and dollar terms the value of conserving the forest and its wildlife."
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/43099 |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
GEF Policy on Indigenous Peoples
On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, nine indigenous peoples' representatives gathered in Washington DC to discuss and provide inputs for the development of a future policy of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) aiming at strengthening the partnership with the indigenous peoples to conserve the global environment and improve their livelihood.
http://www.thegef.org/gef/node/4753
New Website Targets Teachers and Students to Study Native Responses
Developed in collaboration with the Akwesasne Mohawk of northern New York, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation of southern California, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of northern Minnesota and the Lummi Nation of Washington state, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian launches a new educational website, "American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges," that will target middle and high school teachers, students and the general public. Users can see how tribes use their traditional culture, values and indigenous knowledge in combination with contemporary science and technologies to inform their environmental work.
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49839
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| Agro-Ecology
POET and The Earth Partners form partnership
Partnership announced today at the America's Grasslands Conference, between: POET of Sioux Falls, S.D., the country's largest ethanol producer (www.poet.com), and The Earth Partners, a world-wide leader in land and ecosystem restoration (www.theearthpartners.com) http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/poet-7042/news/article/2011/08/poet-and-the-earth-partners-form-partnership-to-develop-conservation-biomass-in-the-upper-midwest |
| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Video: Back from the Brink: for the last wild franciscan manzanita
It has long been known that the Presidio is home to the last Raven's manzanita on earth. Surprisingly, a chance discovery made in 2010 during the Doyle Drive reconstruction project revealed the existence of the Franciscan manzanita, thought to have been extinct in the wild for more than 70 years. This 23-minute film by San Francisco filmmaker Melissa Peabody tells the compelling story of these two icons of California's natural heritage. Produced 2011. Presidio Trust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovTU4FXfB1Q
Nepal: Adapting to Climate Change Can be Simple
Saraswati's success at adaptation became apparent last year when a prolonged dry spell during the monsoon left her unscathed, but damaged her neighbours' crops in Lamidihi, which falls in the Jikhu Khola watershed of Nepal's Kavrepalanchok district, 45 km east of the national capital. "I have been telling the others to adopt the same simple water management techniques that I learned at ICIMOD in order to avoid losses from erratic rains that is said to be caused by climate change," she said.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56878 |
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Oregon: Soda Bear hailed as collaborative milestone The Blue Mountains Forest Partners (BMFP) and the Forest Service recently took "a big step," according to collaborative member Susan Jane Brown. The recent collaboration on the Soda Bear Project resulted in the partners embracing a different way at looking at forest restoration, she said. http://news.opb.org/article/soda_bear_hailed_as_collaborative_milestone/ |
| Grassland Restoration
UK: Plymouth's Chelson Meadow tip restored to grassland
A former rubbish tip in Plymouth has been landscaped into an area of grassland with "rolling hills" covering an estimated 17,650,000 tonnes of landfill. The 180-acre Chelson Meadow site closed in 2008 after 44 years. Plymouth City Council said the work to revert the site to its natural state cost £18m.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-14539584 |
| Lake Restoration
Canada: Beaver Lake restoration based on science
Beaver Lake's rapid infilling was identified as a priority action area to benefit the health and biodiversity of park ecosystems. A consultancy will assess the lake's unique environment and determine the best range of solutions to restore it. Environmental experts from SFU, BCIT and UBC have provided advice for the terms of reference. Public consultation will be included to find a common vision for the lake. As part of stakeholder engagement, we became aware the site is significant to First Nations partners in the park and we have been meeting with them to ensure the scope of work reflects any cultural sensitivities. http://www.vancourier.com/Beaver+Lake+restoration+based+science/5246157/story.html#ixzz1V6k6Epea
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| Coastal & Marine Restoration
New Hampshire: Bid to revive eelgrass population slowly makes headway in region
Attempts to bring eelgrass back have largely failed, but scientists are hoping a revival is coming soon. Ongoing genetic analysis and restoration work - including in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts - aims to help the eelgrass take hold once again. Some are skeptical of all the attention for an obscure, submerged plant. But advocates say restoring the eelgrass would profoundly improve the local ecology and even the commercial fishery.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2011/08/15/bid_to_revive_eelgrass_population_slowly_makes_headway_in_region/ |
Wildlife Restoration
Audio: Bringing Birds Back to Regrowing Forests
A 25-year study of 11 of the fragments now finds that the birds can come back-if the pieces are reconnected. The research was published in Public Library of Science ONE. During the first year after land clearing, bird species such as the black-banded woodcreeper and the black-throated antshrike disappeared locally. Over time, as much as 70 percent of bird species disappeared from the smallest fragments.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=bringing-birds-back-to-regrowing-fo-11-08-14 |
| Extractive Industries
Ecuador: four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'
When large reserves of oil were discovered under Yasuní national park, Ecuador offered the world a choice: give us money and we will not allow drilling. Now $60m must be found by December.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/14/ecuador-oil-yasuni-national-park |
| Invasive Species
Florida: Hollywood to clear out invasives from part of Sheridan Oak Forest
Hollywood was recently awarded a $50,000 grant to help stamp out invasive plants in Sheridan Oak Forest. The city's parks department applied through the Broward County Land Stewardship Program, a five-year capital improvement effort that provides funding for the Partners in Preservation Grant.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/hollywood/fl-cn-invasives-0814-20110812,0,3630892.story |
| Funding Opportunities
Australia: Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation grant - Closes September 2, 2011
The NSW Environmental Trust is now inviting applications from community organisations, non-profits and local governments for its Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation Program.
http://www.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/Council-services/Grants/943-exp050911.htm
The Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Community-based Restoration Partnership has reached a milestone by providing grants for now more than 75 different projects in coastal areas throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Restoring a total of about 15,000 acres over the past decade, these CRP projects have improved a wide variety of habitat types, including coastal dunes, coral reefs, oyster reefs, marshes, seagrass beds, mangrove forests and artificial reefs. Funding from NOAA and EPA make it possible for the GMF to provided more than $3 million to projects. Other partners have contributed an additional $5.5 million in funding. The GMF is offering a new round of CRP funding for 2012.
http://www.gulfmex.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/GCRP2012RFP.pdf
The North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is requesting proposals under the North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA) for review during 2011. Preliminary proposals are due 22 August 2011; projects will start 1 January 2012.
http://www.cec.org/Storage/126/15128_NAPECA_Call_for_proposals_en.pdf
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
Pennsylvania : Watershed protection, restoration grant applications - Closes August 26, 2011
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is accepting grant applications for watershed protection and restoration and Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) projects under the Growing Greener Plus program. The Growing Greener Plus program allows applicants to seek funding for a variety of projects through a single application process.
http://citrix.waterworld.com/index/display/article-display/3311202846/articles/waterworld/environmental0/watersheds/2011/07/Watershed-grant-applications-sought-by-PA-DEP.html |
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