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SER2013
October 6-11, 2013
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Restoration Ecology
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RESTORE is a free bi-weekly e-bulletin provided to current members of SER. RESTORE links you to the latest breaking news stories keeping you up-to-date on a wide variety of topics related to ecological restoration. To contact the editors, please email info@ser.org. |
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SER in the News
Register before July 15 to receive $125 off regular registration! Registration fees include full access to all scientific sessions, conference materials, lunch and coffee breaks on all four days of the scientific program, a Welcome Reception on Sunday evening, poster reception, and evening screening of the film
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time.
SER Student Association Program
SER's Student Association Program connects budding restoration professionals with SER's global community. Students are provided with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience organizing activities in their own communities and pursue professional development opportunities as a collective. Organized and run entirely by students themselves, student associations can be formed by students at any accredited academic institution. Previously $250 USD, student associations can now join SER for
$160 USD per year. Visit SER's student association webpage to learn more. If you would like to form a student association, please contact leah@ser.org.
SER and Island Press Student Video Contest with $500 Scholarship- "Why Restore?"
Final submissions for the Island Press Student Video Contest on ecological restoration projects are due September 1, 2013. The top five, 1-4 minute videos will be chosen by public vote and the winner will be selected by a panel of expert judges. The winner will be announced at SER2013, will receive a $500 travel scholarship to the conference, and the potential to work with an Island Press publishing team to author a short E-ssential on restoration. Click here to learn full details on how to submit your prize winning video.
Don't forget! SER Members receive a 25% off ALL Island Press book purchases. Active SER members can enter promo code 2SER to receive the discount.
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People in the News
The Jury of the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development announced Pavan Sukhdev, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, as a winner of the 2013 Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development. He receives this prestigious award in recognition for his role as the study leader of "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity" (TEEB), a global initiative focused on drawing attention to the economic benefits of biodiversity.
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New Books & Articles
New research shows that humans have been transforming the earth and its ecosystems for millenniums - far longer than previously believed. These findings call into question our notions about what is unspoiled nature and what should be preserved.
The 2011 removal of the Elwha dams, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula west of Puget Sound, was a magical event. This excellent book catches much of that magic.
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Agro-Ecology
Soil is becoming endangered. This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík. Each year, 12 million hectares of land, where 20 million tonnes of grain could have been grown, are lost to land degradation. Unless this trend is reversed soon, feeding the world's growing population will be impossible.
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Biodiverity & Climate Change
Brazil: Indigenous Carbon Conservation Project Gets Verification, Will Start Generating Credits
An effort by an Amazonian tribe to protect their rainforest home against encroachment and illegal logging has finally been validated and verified under a leading carbon accounting standard, enabling it to begin selling carbon credits.
World's Largest REDD+ Project Approved in Indonesia
The world's largest REDD+ project has finally been given the go-ahead by the Indonesian government after spending three years in limbo. The 64,000 hectare site will generate carbon credits from preserving the carbon-rich tropical peat swamp and forest in the face of development pressure from palm oil plantations.
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Forest Restoration
Biologist E. O. Wilson takes a close look at a famed park in Mozambique. Recovering from civil war, it faces a new challenge: Settlers are deforesting its sacred mountain
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River & Watershed Restoration
Once numbering up to 400 million in North America, beavers were hunted to near extinction in the 19th century. While it has long been known that their fur makes excellent clothing and top hats, the role of beavers in maintaining healthy river ecosystems was less well understood until recently.
As the last block of concrete was pulled from the riverbed, the Elwha River in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State flowed freely for the first time in over 100 years. The intent of removing the dams is to fully restore the Elwha River ecosystem and its native migratory fish species. In doing so, the Elwha dam project revived the debate of how to balance the conflicting demands of humans for both clean energy and healthy ecosystems.
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Grassland Restoration
The "páramos" or high plateaus of Ecuador, a crucial source of water, are showing signs of extreme fragility and a troubling loss of capacity to conserve this vital resource and sustain the survival of numerous species found nowhere else on earth.
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Coastal & Marine Restoration
The Conservancy is highlighting the benefits of coral, mangrove, sea grass, and shellfish restoration to people and nature including reducing risk from natural disasters for coastal communities and benefits to local economies through tourism and additional fish production.
Conservationists fighting to save coastal coral reefs should think first about combating local deforestation rather than attacking the wider peril of global warming, suggests an unusual study published on Tuesday.
First came the oil, and now comes the money. A long, complicated, multipart federal trial in New Orleans is getting under way that will determine exactly how much the company pays. Because of recommendations from expert commissions and national legislation, the bulk of the eventual spill penalties is expected to be earmarked for the ecological restoration of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Wildlife Restoration
New Zealand: Passion for conservation sees return of Kiwi to Kaipara
Gill and Kevin Adshead may look like your average dry stock farming couple, but get them talking and you'll discover a drive for environmental restoration that led to the release of 14 Northland Brown kiwi onto their family's Southern Kaipara property.
US: Tiny Foxes Rescued from Extinction
The story of Channel Island foxes could have been one about extinction. But less than a decade later we're writing a success story, instead of another woeful tale of how we failed yet another species. After an intense ecosystem restoration effort, the superintendent of Channel Islands National Park recently called the fox restoration, "one of the quickest recoveries of an endangered species in the history of the Endangered Species Act."
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Invasive Species
Invasive species are rarely considered when planning for connectivity across the landscape, despite the fact that they can often be major ecological determinants of biodiversity and species persistence, especially of endemic flora and fauna. Integrating the management of invasive species into the design and planning of protected networks can potentially deliver landscape level advantages by altering interspecies interactions for the benefit of local, native species.
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Get Involved
La 3ra edición del Diplomado aporta herramientas y conocimientos de excelencia académica, desde las bases de la restauración para este tipo de bosque hasta las valiosas experiencias de expertos de todo el continente americano. Los alumnos de ediciones anteriores han apreciado mucho el incluir un concepto equilibrado entre teoría, práctica y actividades, todo ello en un modelo flexible y autodidacta que permite al alumno ser arquitecto de su propio conocimiento. El Diplomado es organizado por Pronatura Veracruz A.C., el Instituto de Ecología, A.C. y Natureserve con el apoyo financiero de US Fish and Wildlife Service, programa Wildlife Without Borders.
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Funding Opportunities
Pennsylvania: CFA Offering Abandoned Mine, Watershed, & Greenways Grants - Due July 31, 2013
The Commonwealth Financing Authority is now accepting applications for grants under the Act 13 Marcellus Legacy Fund. Program cove abandoned mine drainage abatement and treatment, watershed restoration and protection, water quality data, greenways, trails and recreation and orphan and abandoned well plugging programs. Applications are due July 31 and will be considered at the CFA's November 13 meeting. For more information, contact Brian Eckert or Matthew Karnell at 717-787-6245 to discuss potential projects before commencing the application process.
Sustain Our Great Lakes is a public-private partnership that works to sustain, restore, and protect fish, wildlife, and habitat in the Great Lakes basin by leveraging funding, building conservation capacity, and directing partners and resources toward key ecological issues. Administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the program is accepting applications for competitive funding to be awarded through the 2013 funding cycle. In 2013, grant funding will be awarded in three categories - habitat restoration, delisting of beneficial use impairments within Great Lakes areas of concern, and private landowner technical assistance. Approximately $5 million to $9 million is expected to be available in grants ranging from $25,000 to $1.5 million.
WR provides Federal grant funding to the 50 States, Commonwealths, and territories for the selection, restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of wildlife habitat; wildlife management research; wildlife population surveys and inventories; land acquisition; hunter education and safety programs; coordination; development of facilities; facilities and services for conducting a hunter education and safety programs; and provisions for public use of wildlife resources.
EFN, with generous funding from the UPS Foundation, has launched a special grant opportunity focused on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). FLR is defined as a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded forest landscapes. (WWF and IUCN 2000.) Local organizations from select WWF-US priority ecoregions must meet all of the eligibility criteria to be considered for a grant. Applications must be completed online and submitted to the EFN Conservation Workshop Grants by September 1, 2013.
The Department of Environmental Protection has awarded more than $900,000 in annual coastal zone management grants to organizations dedicated to protecting and preserving Pennsylvania's coastal zones along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary. The agency is now accepting applications for 2013. Coastal zone management grants support programs that measure the impact of various pollution sources; improve public access; preserve habitats; and educate the public about the benefits of the state's coastal zones.
USDA's CRP has a 25-year legacy of successfully protecting the nation's natural resources through voluntary participation, while providing significant economic and environmental benefits to rural communities across the United States. Rather than wait for a general sign-up (the process under which most CRP acres are enrolled), producers whose land meet eligibility criteria can enroll directly in this "continuous" category at any time.
The USDA Farm Service Agency's (FSA) Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) provides payments to eligible owners of nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) land in order to carry out emergency measures to restore land damaged by a natural disaster.
Through the Small Grants Program, Earth Island Institute has been able to support locally based restoration efforts to do just that. Small grassroots efforts to restore the coastal habitats of Southern California, which have been depleted by an astounding 98%, have been slowly working to bring our wetlands back from the brink of extinction. By supporting and empowering the new restoration leaders, we are ensuring the collective success of restoring some of the earth's most fragile ecosystems.
Funding for the 2012 cycle of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Community-based Restoration Partnership (CRP) is now available. The CRP 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. By 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.
Terra Viva Grants Directory develops and manages information about grants for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resources in the world's developing countries.
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.
Tamarisk Related Grant Opportunities
Tamarisk Coalition, a non-profit advancing the restoration of riparian lands throughout the American west, posts current funding and training opportunities applicable to riparian restoration on the Riparian Restoration Connection.
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