|
|
Events & Opportunities
Your monthly roundup of happenings in the restoration community
|
|
June 2020
Dear Luiz,
SER stands united with those demonstrating peacefully to speak out against racism and injustice wherever they occur. Too often and in too many places across the world, environmental injustice and racial injustice go hand in hand, from the murders of indigenous environmental leaders working to protect the Amazon, to the poisoned water of Flint, Michigan in the US. Black ecologists, biologists, and restorationists in the US often put themselves in jeopardy just doing their jobs, especially field work, let alone the racism they face in every other aspect of their daily lives. Here in the US we know that the conservation movement is not as diverse as it should and could be. SER is committed to continuing to engage all people and all sectors in restoration, including creating and providing resources to encourage active, empowered, and rewarding participation in restoration (and related careers) to underserved, underrepresented, and disenfranchised communities throughout the world.
When environmental injustice prevails, both conservation and restoration falter. When conservation and restoration falter, everyone suffers. Restoration cannot be implemented without inclusion – and that means including everyone. It is the very first principle in the SER International Principles and Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration.
For ecological restoration to succeed, everyone, everywhere should be safe and welcome in the natural world. For the US experiment to succeed, black people should be safe and welcome in their jobs, in our communities, while walking or jogging on the street, while bird or wildlife watching, while engaging in nature-based careers, and while just being. All minorities across the globe should feel that same safety, but unfortunately that is not the case today. For these reasons, SER is proud to stand in solidarity with peaceful demonstrators for an equitable, inclusive, just, and ecologically healthy global society.
| Bethanie Walder |
|
Jim Hallett |
| Executive Director |
|
Chair, Board of Directors |
Read and share our full letter here: Ecological Restoration Requires Racial Justice
|
|
|
|
|
We enjoyed convening the restoration community weekly through the 10-week Wednesday Webinar virtual program. Programs covered climate-smart restoration, case studies on Traditional Ecological Knowledge, native plant materials programs, wildlife crossings, urban restoration, and fieldwork protocols for COVID-19. The archived recordings from this series are available in the SER Webinar Library and will remain open access. Starting this month, we return to our monthly webinar series.
|
|
|
June 4: Principles of Riverscape Health & Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration, Speaker: Joe Wheaton, Utah State University
Register
Failing Forward Webinar: Here at SER, we believe in celebrating learning from mistakes. We are looking for people interested in sharing their learning experiences in one of our popular "Failing Forward" webinars. If you'd like to give a presentation exploring surprises, unexpected setbacks, or mistakes and how you learned from them, please let us know ( ale...@ser.org).
|
|
|
This month we are excited to introduce two members who exude a passion for nature and restoration and generously demonstrate their commitment to the Society.
|
|
|
|
Based in Accra, Ghana, Nora Berrahouni is the senior forestry officer for Africa, at the FAO Regional Office for Africa, leading forestry, climate change, biodiversity, and restoration programmes in the region. She is also helping to launch a formal SER Chapter in Africa.
|
|
|
Dave Polster, CERP is a plant ecologist with 35 years experience in vegetation studies, reclamation and invasive species management and leads his own consulting firm in British Columbia, Canada. He serves on the board and committees for SER and SER Western Canada.
|
|
|
Restoration Resource Center
|
|
|
|
|
|
Madagascar: The Fandriana Marolambo Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Project: In 2013, Marolamboa National Park began restoring 6,786 ha of land using a variety of restoration approaches. This project was initially led by WWF, but has been fully managed by local associations since January 2018. As one of the longest standing FLR projects ever undertaken, lessons learned from this 13 year initiative are valuable both in Madagascar (as the country seeks to attain its commitment to restore 4 million ha of forest) as well as around the world.
|
|
|
|
|
We are hearing tremendous interest from the restoration community to see the kinds of safety, volunteer, cleaning, and other protocols being put together to deal with field work and COVID-19. If you or your organization has put together these kinds of guidelines, please consider sharing them with us - email your documents to ale...@ser.org. In the next few weeks we'll announce a resource hub for information related to this topic.
|
|
|
|
|
Programs that have been pre-approved for CERP continuing education credits
|
|
- June 4, 2pm ET, online: Webinar: Invasive mangrove removal at scale: tracking ecosystem change during a restoration project (1 CEC)
- June 4, 12pm ET, online: SER Webinar: Principles of Riverscape Health & Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration (1 CEC)
- June 22-23, online: Short Course: Restoration Ecology – Using Mitigation and Sustainable Design Techniques to Reduce Stormwater Impacts and Increase Storm Resiliency (7 CECs)
- June 28-July 3, Bali, Indonesia: Coral Reef Restoration Workshop (10 CECs)
|
|
SER Southwest: Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico (13-15 November 2020)
SER Northwest and SER Western Canada: Joint Regional Conference in Eugene, Oregon (7-10 February 2021)
HAR SER-Rocky Mountains 2021 Conference and Scientific Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado (April 2021)
SER Australasia: 2021 Conference in Darwin, Australia (10-13 May 2021 - new date!)
SER: 9th World Conference on Ecological Restoration: Reclaim, Restore, Rewild in Quebec City (19-24 June 2021 - new date!/location )
SER Europe: 2021 Conference in Alicante, Spain (31 August - 4 September 2021 - new date!)
|
|
Don't miss out on our publications, tools, and network of 3,000+ restoration professionals across the world — become a member today.
|
|
|
Other ways to contribute:
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright © 2020 Society for Ecological Restoration, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you are or have been a member of SER, have participated in our programs, or have expressed interest in the organization.
Our mailing address is:
Society for Ecological Restoration
1133 15th St NW Ste 300
Washington, DC 20005-2741
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.
|
|
|
|
|
