Application for Nomination to Board of Directors  The Society for Ecological Restoration is now accepting nominations for its upcoming Board of Directors election.  Elections will be held May 27th-June 24th.  All nominations must be received by 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on April 12, 2013. Open Positions The SER Board of Directors consists of four ... read more

The Awards Committee of the Society for Ecological Restoration is now soliciting nominations from SER members for our society awards which will be presented at the 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2013) to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA from October 6-11, 2013. The Awards Committee seeking nominations for four awards: The Theodore M. Sperry Award&nbs... read more

SER Announces the Launch of the Member Directory SER is pleased to announce the launch of SER's brand new Member Directory! The Member Directory is a member-only benefit which gives members access to a dynamic online community focused on ecological restoration.  About The Member Directory    The Member Directory gives members access to a number of exciting functio... read more

The Call for Proposals for Symposia, Workshops, and Training Courses at SER's 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration has been extended until Saturday, December 15.  If you would like to contribute to the SER2013 scientific program by organizing a group of presenters around a special topic or theme, leading an interactive workshop, or running a training course in conjunction ... read more

The Society for Ecological Restoration, in collaboration with our global partners, has published three Information Notes for the upcoming meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in India. The 11th meeting of the Conference of the to the Convention on Biological Diversity will be held in Hyderabad, India October 8-19 2012. We expect that these documents will provide the fo... read more

The Society for Ecological Restoration announced the release of “Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas: Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices” at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Korea, on September 7, 2012.  This is the latest volume in the IUCN’s Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines series, recognized as a source of leading-edge guid... read more

The Call for Proposals for Symposia, Workshops, and Training Courses for SER's 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration is now open. If you would like to contribute to the SER2013 scientific program, you can submit a proposal to organize a group of presenters around a special topic or theme, lead an interactive workshop, or run a training course in conjunction with the conference. We enco... read more

Whether the 33,000-acre fire scar in the Lost Pines will become a pine forest again remains an open question, and the answer rests largely on whether landowners decide to participate in the most ambitious reforestation effort Central Texas has seen. Putting the forest right again will require millions of dollars, millions of pine seedlings, years of planting - and perhaps most important, cooper... read more

Yamuna, the largest tributary of the Ganga river, is all set to get an "eco health" revamp in the region, courtesy UK-based Thames River Restoration Trust (TRRT) and a number of local organizations working in the field of eco-restoration of waterbodies. WWF India has also been working to help restore the lower Yamuna to benefit the people and wildlife as part of the "Thames and Ganges Twinning ... read more

In 1985 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated two world heritage sites in the tiny, mountainous province of Assam in northeastern India. Yet these two parks, just 100 miles apart, and once joined by dense forest, were to experience very different fates over the following 25 years. Where Kaziranga has thrived, and its population of flagship rhin... read more