Last week, a conference entitled Reconciling biodiversity protection and extractive activities organized by the European Commission took place in Brussels. The main aim of the conference was to complement Commission's guidelines on non-extractive industry and Natura2000 and provide inputs for implementing the measure of the Action Plan for Nature, People and Economy. Klára Řehounková was invited as a speaker for the session Biodiversiy during after-mining rehabiliation. She demonstrated the effectiveness of ecological restoration in post-mining sites at a country and also global scale. She also promoted the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) Europe, which can facilitate the transfer of knowledge through the network of experts from different fields. Meeting with people from various fields involved in extraction of natural resources clearly demonstrated an interest in efficient and economically advantageous restoration of sites disturbed by mining activities.
Near-natural restoration at conference in Brussels
Published on Nov 20, 2017
