Restoration and Conservation: Challenges in Times of Climate Change and Environmental Instability
Andre Clewell is a noted writer, lecturer, teacher, and practitioner in the field of ecological restoration. He has taught at Florida State University, owned and operated a restoration company, and helped found the Society for Ecological Restoration. His book, Ecological Restoration Principles Values and Structure of an Emerging Profession is used as a text world-wide in restoration and conservation study.
Marc Brody ’83 is a National Geographic grantee and expert for his work to conserve giant pandas and restore their habitat in the Wolong Nature Reserve, for which he is a senior advisor. For over 20 years, Brody has designed and managed a wide range of environmental programs in China, focusing on resource management and planning and stewardship education.
Clewell, in collaboration with Brody, restores fragmented giant panda habitat in Sichuan, China. Following internationally recognized standards and procedures developed by the Society for Ecological Restoration, Panda Mountain, founded by Brody, is working alongside a coalition of Sichuan government agencies and research institutes, Chengdu area universities, and villagers from Wolong to initiate a long-term process to protect the region's biodiversity, including wild panda habitats.
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