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<b><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">*STANDARDS OF PRACTICE TO GUIDE THE UN DECADE ON ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; background:white"> </span></b></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Webinar date/time: February 15, 2023; Time 11:00 am ET</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Duration: 1 hour</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The United Nations General Assembly declared 2021–2030 as the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Decade offers an opportunity to substantially
advance restoration practice, science, and policy, but to do so requires a shared vision of ecosystem restoration and the principles that underpin it, as well as clear standards for what constitutes best practice. Towards this end, UN Decade partners engaged
in a multi-stage process to collaboratively develop principles and standards of practice for ecosystem restoration, based on existing published guidance from a broad range of restorative activities and input from over 400 experts in the field. The principles
and standards provide the essential tenets of ecosystem restoration that should be followed to maximize net gain for native biodiversity, ecosystem health and integrity, and human well-being, across all biomes, sectors and regions. This webinar will consider
the 10 principles underpinning the UN Decade, and the development of guidance or best practices for planning, implementing, and monitoring and evaluation of restoration projects.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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</span><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Andrea Romero Montoya, UN FAO; James G. Hallett, SER and the University of Montana; and Cara R. Nelson, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and the
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<span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Registration required: https://www.ser.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1715351&group=</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Webinar presented by: The Society for Ecological Restoration</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted2" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>*LAUNCHING THE NEW SEED INFORMATION DATABASE WITH THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SEED-BASED RESTORATION</b></span><span class="x_ContentPasted2" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#548DD4"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></b></span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted2" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The new SID provides user-friendly access to essential information on seed weight, storage behavior, germination requirements, and other traits. The database
currently hosts 182,232 records from 54,803 plant taxa. All records contained within the database are publicly available under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY 2.0.</span><span class="x_ContentPasted2" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted2" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">SID, originally developed and maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBGK), was slated to be discontinued due to an agency compliance issue. Upon hearing
about the impending closure, SER’s INSR and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew worked together to ensure the preservation of this critical database, which serves as an invaluable and reliable source of information on native seeds for restoration practitioners across
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Simone Pedrini, Curtin University; John B. Dickie, Royal Botanic Gardens KEW; Fiona Hay, Aarhus University; Chid Gilovitz, Botanist, Australia </span></p>
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</span><span class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">https://www.ser.org/news/628934/SER-launches-new-Seed-Information-Database-with-the-International-Network-for-Seed-based-Restoration.htm</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Webinar presented by: The Society for Ecological Restoration</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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