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Contribution of Ecosystem Restoration to the Objectives of the CBD and a Healthy Planet for All People Secretariat of the CBD Technical Series No. 62 Convention on Biological Diversity Contribution of ECosystEm rEstoration to thE objECtivEs of thE CbD62 anD a hEalthy PlanEt for all PEoPlE Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 15th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 7-11 November 2011, Montreal, Canada CBD Technical Series No. 62 Contribution of Ecosystem Restoration to the Objectives of the CBD and a Healthy Planet for All People Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 15th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 7-11 November 2011, Montreal, Canada Published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. ISBN: 92-9225-390-5 Copyright © 2011, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The views reported in this publication do not necessarily represent those of the Convention on Biological Diversity nor those of the reviewers. All abstracts are presented, unedited, in the form in which they were submitted. This publication may be reproduced for educational or non-profit purposes without special permission from the copyright holders, provided acknowledgement of the source is made. The Secretariat of the Convention would appreciate receiving a copy of any publications that uses this document as a source. Citation Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2011). Contribution of Ecosystem Restoration to the Objectives of the CBD and a Healthy Planet for All People. Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 15th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 7-11 November 2011, Montreal, Canada. Technical Series No. 62. Montreal, SCBD, 116 pages. Compiled by Jacqueline Grekin and Jo Mulongoy, SCBD. For further information, please contact: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity World Trade Centre 413 St. Jacques Street, Suite 800 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 1N9 Phone: 1 (514) 288 2220 Fax: 1 (514) 288 6588 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.cbd.int Typesetting: Em Dash Design Cover Photos (Top to bottom): A 200 year-old pine tree stands alone on the coastline, northeastern Japan. In the wake of the tsunami, it is the sole survivor of a pine tree forest that once held 70,000 trees (abstract no. 25)—Photo: BY-NC- ND 2.1 日本 Norifumi Otani. Restoring the Wouri River, Cameroon, by removing and composting water hya- cinth (abstract no. 11)—Photo: Chi Napoleon Forpah, of WTG & Partners. Restored steppe fragment in Donetsk Botanical Garden, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (abstract no. 17)—Photo: Vladimir Kricsfalusy. Capacity building in San Benito community, Guatemala. Women make up over 80% of those involved in the harvesting, processing and selling of Maya Nut, a food derived from a native rainforest tree. The past century has seen the range of Maya Nut greatly reduced but within the past decade the species has become important in reforestation initiatives, child nutrition and the development of sustainable women-dominated micro enterprises (abstract no. 38)—Photo: Erika Vohman. contents Foreword 7 preFace 9 1. RE-eSTaBLISHING AN ECOLoGICALLY HEALTHY RELaTIoNSHIP BeTWEEN NaTURE AND CULTURE: THE MISSIoN AND VISIoN OF THE SOCIeTY FOR ECOLoGICAL RESTORATIoN SashaAlexander,JamesAronson,AndreClewell,KarenKeenleyside,EricHiggs,DennisMartinez,CarolinaMurcia, CaraNelson �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������11 2. RESTORING OUR WETLaNdS: AN IMPORTaNT TOOL FOR IMPROVING ECOSYSTeM SERVICES AND eNHaNcING HUMaN WELL-BeING SashaAlexander,NickDavidson,KevinErwin,MaxFinlayson,RobertMcInnes���������������������������������15 3. RESTORATIoN AND REMEDIaTIoN OF KUWAIT’S DAMaGED NaTURAL RESoURCES AS A CONSeQUeNCE OF WAR SamiraOmarAsem�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������18 4. restaUracIón y adapTacIón al cambio climático en Áreas ProTegidas de MéxIco MarianaBellot,AndrewRhodes,AlejandraCalzada,FernandoCamacho ��������������������������������������20 5. eFECTIVIDAD DE UN DISeÑO FLORÍSTICO PARA EL CONTROL DEL RETaMO ESpINoSO Ulex eUropaeUs l. EN LA VEREDA EL HaTo, LOCALIDAD DE USMe, BoGoTá, COLoMBIa. GabrielFelipePeñalozaBojacá;DianaDoncelBohórquez����������������������������������������������������22 6. THE Atlantic Forest Restoration PacT—A major effort by Brazilian socIety to restore aNd transform its most threaTeNed bioMe PedroH�S�Brancalion,PedroCastro,RicardoR�RodriguesandJamesAronson����������������������������������24 7. pLaNNING FOR ECO-RESTORATIoN OF A WATER FOWL HaBITaT – CASE STUdY OF SaNTRAGACHI jHEEL, KoLKaTa, INdIa ArijitChatterjee,AnirbanRoy,SilanjanBhattacharya,SoumyendraNathGhosh,DebalRay�����������������������27 8. eNHaNcING ECOLoGICAL AND PEOPLe’S RESILIeNCE: IMpLeMeNTING THE CBd’S ECOSYSTeM APPROACH IN THE HINdU KUSH-HIMaLaYaN REGIoN NakulChettri,BandanaShakya,andEklabyaSharma������������������������������������������������������29 9. RESTORING NEW ZEALaNd’S UrBaN ECOSYSTeMS B�D�Clarkson,C�L�Bryan,F�M�Clarkson�����������������������������������������������������������������32 10. An INITIaTIVE FOR ENHaNcING THE BeNeFITS TO ALL FORMS OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTeM SERVICES IN THE ECONoMIC COOPERATIoN ORGaNIZATIoN (ECO) REGIoN Asghar/MohammadiFazel,Azin/Fazeli�������������������������������������������������������������������34 11. TRANSFORMaTIoN DU DIaBLE EN ANGE EN VUE DE RESTaURER LeS FoNcTIoNS DE L’ECOSYSTeME dU FLeUVE WOUrI ChiNapoléonForpah,MatsinNzonkamAlineSidonie,FonyuyFridolin����������������������������������������37 12. eU BIodiversity STraTegy: THe contribution of Green InfrastrUcture towards meeting the gloBal aNd European Union restoration tarGets MarcoFritz&NataliePauwels��������������������������������������������������������������������������39 13. APROVECHaMIeNTO SUSTeNTaBLE DEL BoSQUe, REFORESTACIóN POPULAR Y SU CONSoLIDACIóN A TRAVéS DE LoS PLaNeS DE ACCIóN DE LA ESTRATeGIA NACIoNaL DE DIVERSIDAD BIoLóGICA 2010-2020. VioletaGómez,JesúsCegarra,LeonardoLugo,MaríaTrejo y JesúsManzanilla�����������������������������������41 3 Contribution of Ecosystem Restoration to the Objectives of the CBD and a Healthy Planet for All People 14. ecoLogical restoration aNd extinction preVentioN: eradIcating invasive verTeBraTes From islaNds to heLp achieVe convention on BIoLogical diversity 2020 tarGets NickHolmes,HugoArnal,BorisFabres,RayNiasandBillWaldman ������������������������������������������43 15. INCENTIVIzING LOCAL COMMUNITIeS TO MaINTaIN A HEALTHY MoUNTaIN ECOSYSTeM: An exaMpLe from a pilot REDD project in three WaTersheds of NepaL SeemaKarki,BhaskarSKarky,JagdishPoudel,EakRana,andRajanKotru�������������������������������������46 16. AgrIcultural HeritaGe Systems: the imporTant roLe in revitalizing ecosystems for biodiversity conserVation aNd sustainable rUral livelihoodS ParvizKoohafkanandMaryJaneDelaCruz ��������������������������������������������������������������49 17. BrINGING BACK THE STEPPE: ADVaNcING SUSTaINaBILITY THROUGH GRASSLaNdS RESTORATIoN IN UKRAINe VladimirKricsfalusy ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������52 18. Analyses of recent ecosystem deGradation in INdIan reefs to pLanning biodiversity restoration fraMeworks aNd monitoring. VenkataramanKrishnamoorthyandRajkumarRajan�������������������������������������������������������55 19. BUILdING RESILIeNCE WHeN RESTORING DEGRADED ECOSYSTeMS: IMPROVING BIODIVERSITY VaLUeS AND SOCIo-ECONoMIC BeNeFITS TO COMMUNITIeS DavidLamb,AngelaAndrade,GillShepherd,KeithBowers,SashaAlexander�����������������������������������57 20. LA ESTRATeGIA NACIoNaL PARA LA CONSERVACIóN DE LA DIVERSIDAD BIoLóGICA DE LA REPÚBLICA BoLIVARIaNA DE VeNEZUeLA (2010-2020) Y LA RESTaURACIóN DE LoS ECOSISTeMaS JesúsManzanilla,VioletaGómez,PedroBorges,ClaudiaGiraldo,EsquisaOmaña,GuillermoBarreto,DouglasMora,Luis Ovalles,JesúsCegarra���������������������������������������������������������������������������������60 21. INdIGeNoUS ECOSYSTeM-BaSED ADAPTaTIoN AND COMMUNITY-BaSED ECOCULTURAL RESTORATIoN DUrING RAPID CLIMaTE DISrUpTIoN DennisMartinez��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������62 22. SEED BaNKING FOR BIODIVERSE LaNdSCAPE-SCALE RESTORATIoN DavidMerritt,LucyCommander,ToddEricksonandKingsleyDixon������������������������������������������64 23. RAINFORESTaTIoN: RESTORING PHILIPPINE FORESTS FOR COMMUNITIeS, BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTeM SERVICES PacienciaMilan,Ma�JulietCeniza,MarlitoBande1,andHazelConsunji���������������������������������������67 24. roLe of privaTe enterprise in ECOLoGICAL restoration of South AfrIcan ecosystems SueMiltonandRichardDean���������������������������������������������������������������������������70 25. BoUNcING BACK FROM DISaSTERS: REBUILdING SaToYaMA AND SaToUMI COMMUNITIeS AFTER THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUaKE AND TSUNaMI AkaneMinohara,RobertBlasiak,TakuyaFurukawa,KaoruIchikawa,JoMulongoy,KurtisK�Nakamura,FumikoNakao, AyumiTakahashi,AyaTakatsuki,KazuTakemotoandarangeofothercolleagues��������������������������������73
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