The Ramon Margalef Colloquia 2025 Organizers are thrilled to announce the 9th Edition of the Ramon Margalef Colloquia. The event will be held from the 16th to 21st March, 2025 at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona and is titled: “Fundamentals Of Ecology For Conservation And Restoration of Marine...Read More
Restoring Europe’s Deep Seas: The REDRESS Project
The deep sea, Earth’s largest ecosystem, harbours a rich tapestry of life vital for the planet's health and stability. However, deep-sea ecosystems face severe threats from human activities and climate change.Read More
SERE participates on new publication: “Handbooks to Improve the Birds and Habitats Directives Implementation”
SERE has been part of the team producing two new handbooks on Evidence‐based Improvements in the Birds and Habitats Directives Implementation (E-BIND) commissioned by the European Parliament. The handbooks focus on Guidance for improving the availability of data and information on species, habitats and sites (Focus area A) and Scientific...Read More
Dutch Knowledge Network for Restoration and Management of Nature (OBN) affiliated with SER Europe
Dutch Knowledge Network for Restoration and Management of Nature (OBN) affiliated with SER Europe. During the SER2016 Conference in Freising (Germany) Wim Wiersinga of the Dutch OBN Network and Jordi Cortina of SER Europe signed an agreement for affiliation. The work of OBN has been truely impressive and successful in...Read More
Finland bundles its knowhow of peatland restoration in a handbook.
The handbook Ecological restoration in drained peatlands compiles the Finnish knowhow accumulated over more than 25 years of peatland habitat restoration, together with useful information on peat and the hydrology of peatlands. The handbook is intended for everyone involved in the planning and implementation of active restoration measures in peatlands that have...Read More
New book from SER Europe: Guidelines for native seed production and grassland restoration
New book from SER Europe: Guidelines for native seed production and grassland restoration Edited by Kathrin Kiehl, Anita Kirmer, Nancy Shaw & Sabine Tischew (2014) Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 315 pages ISBN 978-1-4438-5900-4 Price: £49.99 World-wide, the degradation and destruction of both natural and traditionally used semi-natural ecosystems is drastically increasing. Unfortunately, commercial seed...Read More
Workshop report on ‘Near-natural restoration vs. technical reclamation of mining sites in the Czech Republic’
Restoration of post-mining sites in Czech Republic: English version of Workshop report available here ...Read More
SER2013 Summer School ‘Restoration of Mediterranean ecosystems’
SER2013 Summer School ‘Restoration of Mediterranean ecosystems’: Full report and presentations hereRead More
WIKI tool for river restoration in Europe
NEW: WIKI tool for river restoration in Europe. An interactive source of information on river restoration schemes from around Europe assembled by the RESTORE partnership. Policy makers, river restoration practitioners and other stakeholders now have a new online tool at their disposal, providing them with hundreds of river restoration case...Read More