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Dead Planet, Living Planet: UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director’s Statement
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010The following is the preface to the UNEP publication Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development [Christian Nelleman (Editor in chief) and Emily Corcoran](2010).
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Biodiversity and ecosystems deliver crucial services to humankind – from food security to keeping our waters clean, buffering against extreme weather, providing medicines to recreation and adding to [...]
Water Management and Wetland Restoration Training Course
Friday, November 20th, 2009Wetland restoration and management is a critical topic today worldwide as clean fresh water becomes an ever increasingly scarce commodity in light of human development and global climate change.
The Water Management and Wetland Restoration Training Course was originally developed by its lead instructor, Kevin Erwin, in association with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and [...]
Prospects for Southeast Lee County Report Receives Award
Monday, July 27th, 2009APA AWARD: The American Planning Association (APA) Florida Executive Committee has selected the Prospects for Southeast Lee County: Planning for the Density Reduction/Groundwater Resource Area to receive an Award of Merit in the Grassroots Initiative Category. The award will be presented at the Annual State Conference being held in Jacksonville, Florida, from September 15, 2009 [...]
Kevin Erwin joins Ramsar Scientific & Technical Review Panel
Thursday, March 19th, 2009In February 2009 Kevin Erwin was appointed to Ramsar’s Science and Technical Review Panel to lead the Wetland Management, Mitigation, Restoration and Compensation thematic section.
The Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Ramsar Convention* was established by Resolution 5.5 (Kushiro, 1993) as a subsidiary body of the Convention to provide scientific and technical guidance [...]
Wetland Restoration and Climate Change Publication
Friday, January 23rd, 2009After months of working with the publisher, Springer, and our colleagues at Ramsar this important new paper, Wetlands and global climate change: the role of wetland restoration in a changing world has been published in the Journal of Wetlands Ecology and Management. A Ramsar technical report will soon follow later in 2009. Reprints are available upon request [...]
Little Pine Island Marks 10 Years of Wetland Restoration
Friday, April 13th, 2007By Carla Kappmeyer-Sherwin, Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council member
A major milestone in exotic removal, the 10th anniversary marking the restoration of Little Pine Island, occurred on March 24, 2007. Residents of Pine Island and other communities within greater southwest Florida joined in the open house celebration hosted by Mariner Properties Development. Activities included a wildlife [...]
Little Pine Island Native Plants Return
Sunday, March 25th, 2007By Kevin Lollar
A gentle breeze slipped across Little Pine Island on Saturday as vultures rode morning thermals in a patchy sky.
Ten years ago, a visitor standing in the same spot would have neither felt the breeze nor seen the vultures: All would have been blocked by an impenetrable stand of melaleuca trees, one of Florida’s [...]
Wetlands Day in the light of Climate Change
Friday, February 2nd, 2007International Wetlands Day, the second of February, is this year dominated by the news about climate change. This day, the UN present a report acknowledging the link between human activities and climate change. The importance of conserving and restoring wetlands for fighting climate change is still not acknowledged enough.
Wetlands are crucial for fighting climate change. [...]
Ex-farmers ply trade in reverse
Sunday, January 7th, 2007by Laura Ruane
Former potato grower Robert E. McMahon Jr. calls his new line of work “reverse farming.”
Kevin Erwin, a Fort Myers-based ecological consultant, calls it habitat restoration and preservation.
McMahon, McMahon’s son and two other ex-farmers are reshaping a former farm and cattle ranch into the Corkscrew Regional Mitigation Bank in southeastern Lee County.
Their work includes [...]