ONLINE: CIEEM 2024 Autumn Conference: Restoring Forwards: Best Practices for Resilient Nature Restoration

                                              

                   

To attend the conference online, please book your ticket below. 

If you would like to attend in person, please book your tickets here - In-person Conference Tickets 

Bookings will close at noon on 20th November 2024.

Description

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean - it ends in 2030. What progress has been made in the UK and Ireland and how well positioned are we to meet species and habitat restoration targets set in national strategies? The drive to restore nature, and our connection with nature, provides an optimistic narrative to inspire action, but we risk failure if we cannot fill our sector’s evidence and skills gaps.

Our Autumn Conference is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of terrestrial, coastal and freshwater nature restoration projects and learn from passionate practitioners across the whole of the ecology and environmental management sector in the UK, Ireland and overseas. Whether you are delivering nature restoration through the planning system, adaptively managing a protected site, enhancing the biodiversity of farmed land, or engaging people in community-based restoration, this conference is an opportunity to share your experience and learn new practical techniques and approaches. Presentations and workshop sessions will tackle urgent questions underpinning our approaches, shine a spotlight on successful methods, and stimulate new learning to help empower #GenerationRestoration.

A fully hybrid conference

Delegates attending in-person will be able to network with presenters, exhibitors and each other in the relaxed and festive environment of the Leonardo Hotel. Housed in a grand Victorian building in the heart of Cardiff, the Leonardo is within easy walking distance of the city’s top attractions, including Cardiff Castle, with remains dating from Roman and Norman times, the green spaces of Bute Park, Cardiff Bay and the iconic Senedd Building – home to the Welsh Parliament. In-person delegates will be able to visit a range of exhibitors, and will be fed well throughout the day with the option of attending a three-course conference dinner followed by live music and dancing courtesy of the acclaimed Shipsters ceilidh band.

In-person delegates will be invited to choose from four engaging workshop sessions running in parallel on each day of the event, with speakers attending and presenting in-person unless they are joining from overseas.

In order to make the conference accessible to potential delegates from further afield and thanks to our partnership with SER, we are pleased to be able to provide a hybrid conference this year. Furthermore, all main conference presentations will be recorded and available to all delegates after the event, and delegates in-person and online will be encouraged to interact with exhibitors, speakers, and each other, through our Cvent conferencing app with virtual exhibition booths. In addition to all main programme talks, online attendees will be able to choose one of at least two workshop sessions running in parallel on both days.

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In partnership with the Society for Ecological Restoration 


We are delighted to be working in partnership with the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), to deliver this year’s autumn conference as a fully hybrid event with online attendance possible for both CIEEM and SER members. SER has for more than three decades given voice to the field of ecological restoration and provided leadership in all aspects of its development. With over 5,000 members in more than 100 countries, SER foster the exchange of knowledge and expertise among restoration practitioners and scientists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. SER actively promotes best practices and effective restoration policy around the world - partnering with SER helps to kickstart opportunities for CIEEM and SER members to learn from each other and we are pleased to be able to offer attendance to SER members at our CIEEM member rate. 

Knowledge Level

Suitable for all

If you are a CIEEM Student Member and would like to enter our free draw to win 1 of 5 student delegate spaces, then please email training@cieem.net. The draw closes at noon on Wednesday 20th November 2024 and you will be notified by email if you have been successful by the 21st November 2024. 

If you are a SER member, please select 'CIEEM member' rate when booking.

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