Nominations sought for the 20 most outstanding restoration projects
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 20 MOST OUTSTANDING RESTORATION PROJECTS IN AUSTRALASIA
The EMR journal and its parent organization the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) is proud to announce a new partnership with Society for Ecological Restoration International (SERI).
The project is to find the 20 most outstanding on-ground ecosystem restoration projects in Australasia (land, water and atmosphere) and feature them via a weblink to SERI's Global Restoration website (www.globalrestorationnetwork.org/) in time for 2009's international conferences of SERI and INTECOL (which will be held for the first time in Australia.)
SERI is the world's oldest and most dynamic restoration organization with high relevance to Australasia - but many projects in Australasia have also developed ideas and techniques of high relevance to the rest of the world. The time is right for international and regional cross-fertilisation!
A project can be nominated if it:
1. is an outstanding Australasian example of on-ground ecological restoration (as described in the SERI primer www.ser.org/content/ecological_restoration_primer.asp) for a particular biome or ecosystem
2. has broken new ground in terms of ecological or on-ground philosophies or techniques
3. is based on sound ecological principles and clearly stated goals
4. exhibits high quality on-ground implementation standards
5. has demonstrated results over many years
6. is of significant scale or with potential to be adopted on a larger scale"?
7. has been soundly monitored and evaluated and has had at least one peer reviewed article published on it
8. has sound social underpinnings and sufficient support from stakeholders to be sustained into the future
[If you do not meet all these criteria, please send a nomination form anyway in case we can help you spread the word about your project.]
The selected project managers will gain the right to tag their winning project with an EMR/Global Restoration Network 2009 'badge' and will be encouraged to develop an online report (guided by EMR's committee) for hyperlinking to an interactive map on the GRN website by 2009.
Click here to request a nomination form
CLOSING DATE IS JUNE 2, 2008