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Ecosystem Restoration Thematic Group

IUCN CEM’s Ecosystem Restoration Thematic Group (ERTG) improves local-to-global ecosystem restoration by contributing technical guidance and translating restoration science into practice.

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Cultural Practices and Ecosystem Management Ecosystem Governance Ecosystem Restoration Thematic Group Human Health and Ecosystem Management (HHEM) Nature-based Solutions Thematic Group Red List of Ecosystems Thematic Group Social-Ecological Resilience and Transformation Thematic Group (SERT)

 

All pictures were taken by Cara R Nelson
 

Group lead:

Cara R. Nelson
Professor - University of Montana, USA
Department of Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences

Group co-lead:

Emanuela W. A. Weidlich
Postdoctoral researcher - Botanical Department 
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

Cara Nelson (Lead, CEM ERTG) and Radhika Dave (Coordinator of IUCN’s Bonn Challenge Barometer) at the 2019 UN CBD Thematic Workshop on Ecosystem Restoration for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Photo: anonymous; token on phone of Cara R. Nelson)

Emanuela Weidlich (ERTG Co-lead) installing a restoration experiment testing the effect of nurse plants on natural regeneration of Atlantic Forest coastal vegetation in Brazil (Photo: João Pulo Ernzen).


Cerrado grassland, Brazil (Photo:  Cara R. Nelson)


Estuary in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo:  Cara R Nelson)