Dear Colleagues, The deadline to submit abstracts for an oral or poster presentation at the 7th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2017) is *March 20, 2017* .
SER2017 will take place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil from 27 August to 1 September 2017, and is being co-hosted by the *Sociedade Brasileira de Restauração Ecológica* (SOBRE) and the *Sociedad Ibero-Americana y del Caribe de Restauración Ecológica* (SIACRE). The conference will bring together an estimated 1,500 participants from around the world embodying a wide range of perspectives in the natural and social sciences, landscape architecture, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, and public policy. The overarching conference theme is "Linking Science and Practice for a Better World". Within this broad framework, the conference program will explore such topics and themes as: - Science for effective restoration practice - Planning -- governance, priorities and goals - Economic, social and philosophical dimensions of restoration - Challenges and obstacles of restoration in an era of rapid change and increasing anthropogenic pressure - Restoration techniques for different biomes and ecosystems - Restoration monitoring and evaluating success Visit *www(dot)ser2017(dot)org* for more information (certain email filters block the url because it is hosted outside of the US so fill please copy and past and fill in the dots!) Best, Hannah Boone *Communications & Operations Coordinator* Society for Ecological Restoration 1133 15th St. NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20005 202-299-9518 <(202)%20299-9518> www.ser.org
