Restoration Resource Center
New Policy Brief
The potential of natural regeneration as a cost-effective, nature-based tool for restoration is often overlooked. This information brief outlines specific recommendations for policy changes to make natural regeneration an integral component of forest and landscape restoration programs, and to thereby enhance its role in achieving large-scale restoration objectives and climate mitigation targets. The brief was produced in partnership by the CBD’s Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative, SER, the PARTNERS network, and FAO.
SER Int'l Standards
SER's International Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration provide a framework for guiding the development and implementation of ecological restoration projects in any ecosystem, anywhere in the world. The Standards are intended to help increase the success of restoration efforts at the local, project level and meet a growing need for clear guidance about restoration principles and key concepts as global environmental and sustainability agreements increasingly focus on restoration.
Featured Article
From the March issue of SER's peer-reviewed journal, Restoration Ecology.
Much of the practice of restoration is conducted by businesses—contractors, consultants, designers, engineers. This paper explores the business perspective in restoration based on data collected from businesses (contractors, consultants, design engineers), agencies, and nongovernmental organizations involved in a Superfund cleanup project in Montana, one of the largest river restoration efforts ever.
About the Restoration Resource Center
The RRC provides practitioners, researchers, educators, students, and the public with access to a wide variety of resources, publications, and project information from around the world.
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What's New?
Invasive Species Summit
On November 3, 2017, New York Botanical Garden and the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) co-presented Invasive Species Summit: Restoration and Long-term Management. Five experts shared their insights about best practices to manage and restore ecosystems, and led audience conversation about how to establish goals, prioritize, take action to implement projects, and overcome challenges to achieve long-term success at both small- and large-scale sites. A recording of the full program is available on the NYBG YouTube Channel.
Learn moreProjects
Brazil: Restoration of the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica)
Instituto Terra is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado and the renowned photographer Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado. It is located at the Bulcão Farm in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, and it covers an...
India: Mangrove Restoration in Palk Bay, Tamil Nadu
The MANGREEN project intends to be a model for the community-based ecological restoration of mangroves through the application of scientific knowledge along with socio-economic development. In September 2005, the project was...