is a learning organisation which functions as an overarching platform to support and mainstream existing - and catalyze new - programmes for restoring lecosystem services and natural capital across the Eastern Cape and the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany biodiversity hotspot. Vision: Restoration of Living Landscapes: "Mainstreaming" and institutionalising restoration as a socially desirable, economically feasible and ecologically acceptable multi-functional land-use

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- 5 to 7 new students will join the PRESENCE platform to conduct their master and internship (7 moths) to support STRP, Riparian restoration and Terrapi. Their skill will be from remote sensing, GIS, soil sience, restoration ecology to institutionalising and policy. - Mike Powel (R3G) will present results of STRP at the Thicket Forum and SAWMA - Ignacio De La Flor Tejero,  Kim Janssen, Eliska Lorencova and Emmanuelle Noirtin will present (poster presentation) their results of their thesis at the Thicket Forum and SAWMA - Who is willing to restore and why? Published by Emmanuelle Noirtin (WUR) in collaboration with WUR, ECo and R3G. Read more.	7 - 11 Aug: ISEE Internation Society of Ecological Economics, Kenya.                  20 - 22 Aug: Thicket Forum, South Africa 16-19 Sept: South Africa Wildlife Management Symposium, (SAWMA) South Africa. 5 - 14 Oct: IUCN World Conservation Congresse, Spain.