The next annual colloquium of the REVER network (network for discussing and promoting restoration ecology) will be held at the Tour du Valat, in the Camargue, from 4 to 6 April 2018.
This colloquium REVER (dream) and laisser-faire? will focus on the active or passive restoration of ecosystems, in particular Mediterranean wetlands, on which the Tour du Valat has been conducting research and experimenting with management techniques for more than 60 years.
Talk proposals can be submitted from now until 16 March 2018.
You can still register and propose a talk. For more practical information and a detailed programme, visit the colloquium website (N.B. attendance is limited to 80 participants).
In the framework of the Francophone University Association, 4 April will be devoted to a seminar on new experimental management practices for Mediterranean quarries, with presentations to be made by our Moroccan and Lebanese colleagues as well as an on-site visit.
The afternoon of 6 April will be devoted to a visit of the Camargue Saltworks Lagoons and Marshes, a 6500-hectare site, formerly used by the salt farming industry, which is now owned by the French coastal protection agency. The Tour du Valat, the Camargue National Reserve, and the Camargue Regional Natural Park are co-managing this site, and since 2011 have been conducting an ambitious renaturing project (read more).
Originally, established through the CNRS/CEMAGREF Ecological Engineering programme, the REVER network, which was set up as an association in 2011, is associated with the International Society for Ecological Restoration.
