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2024 SPECIAL EVENT

Ecosystem Restoration Workshop

September 2024 | Canberra

This 2 day workshop brought together 125 experts, practitioners, First Nations leaders, policy makers and stakeholders to tackle the challenge of restoring Australia's degraded ecosystems.

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About this Event

The Australian Government committed to 6 National Targets to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.


A key national target is Priority degraded areas are under effective restoration by 2030.


To achieve this target, Australia needs a coordinated, specific and measurable national restoration plan that identifies priority degraded areas, clearly defines effective restoration, is integrated with conservation, inclusive of all stakeholders, based on partnerships and incorporates a ‘whole-of-society' approach.


To help address these challenges and chart a way forward, the Australian Committee for IUCN (ACIUCN) convened a 2-day workshop bringing together our members, associates, experts from conservation, science and finance sectors, practitioners, First Nations Peoples and policy makers.


Together, we identified restoration priorities, gaps, needs, values, principles, tools and approaches to create a roadmap of recommended actions for the effective restoration of priority degraded ecosystems in Australia.


Attendees at this pivotal Ecosystem Restoration Workshop were invited to:

  • Identify priority degraded areas in Australia.

  • Share and review current knowledge and frameworks for ecosystem restoration, identifying barriers, gaps and needs.

  • Make recommendations for defining effective restoration in an Australian context.

  • Contribute to a proposed system of values, principles, tools and approaches to prioritize ecosystems for effective restoration, including the need to partner with First Nations people.

  • Identify financial mechanisms to build capacity, support and scale-up restoration.

  • Help build a roadmap of recommended actions for Australia to achieve our national restoration target.

A key output of the event will be a synthesis report of insights and recommendations. The report is due for publication in March-April 2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Development of this Workshop was guided by an organising committee consisting of:

  • Patrick O'Connor - Chair National Landcare Network, Restoration Decade Alliance representative

  • Mary-Anne Healy - Director, Climate Change, Flood Risk & Coast, South Australia Department for Environment and Water

  • Erica McCreedy - Chief Operating Officer NAILSMA (North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance); 

  • Sarah Terkes - ACIUCN Executive Director

  • Lisa Malcolm - ACIUCN Programs Manager

  • Angela Newey - Director,  National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Taskforce, DCCEEW (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)

  • Fleur Downard - Chair, ACIUCN and Director, International Environment, Reef and Oceans Division, DCCEEW


This workshop continued the work of previous ACIUCN Biodiversity Workshops:  


June 2023 - Global Biodiversity Framework - Help Australia Meet Targets by 2030

October 2022 - ACIUCN Webinar - Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

November 2021 - Australia's priorities for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

March 2019 - Starting the conversation on Australia’s priorities for the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Collaborators

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Speakers and Presentations

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Barry Hunter

NAILSMA

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Martine Maron

Queensland University

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Maurizio Rossetto

Botanic Gardens Sydney

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James Trezise

Biodiversity Council

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Jen Ford

SERA

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Chris Ewing

Taronga Conservation Society

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Chrissy Grant

IIPFWH

Opening Plenary​​

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James Fitzsimons

The Nature Conservancy

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Jody Gunn

ALCA

Panel Facilitator

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Megan Evans

UNSW Canberra

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Hedley Grantham

Bush Heritage + UNSW

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Blathnaid Byrne

Commonwealth Bank

Panel Facilitator

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Peter Cochrane

IUCN

MC & Opening Plenary

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Tein McDonald

Restoration Decade Alliance

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Patrick O'Connor

Landcare

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Greg Manning

DCCEEW

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Kathryn Eyles

Australian Seed Bank

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Shane Orchard

IUCN CEM

Panel Facilitator

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Emily Nicholson

Melbourne University

Presentation

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William Glamore

UNSW Sydney

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Rosie Cooney

ACT Government

Panel Facilitator

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Elizabeth Pryde

Greening Australia

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Euan Ritchie

Deakin University

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Sarah Hoyal

NRM Regions Australia

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Simon Ferrier

CSIRO

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Suzanne Prober

CSIRO / TERN

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Richard Swain

Invasive Species Council

Panellist

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Ryan Wilson

DCCEEW

Panellist

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Tanya Pritchard

WWF

Presentation

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing
connection to land, waters, and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. 
We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and that it Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal land.

 

© 2025 Australian Committee for IUCN

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