REVER, the French Restoration Network
REVER, le réseau français de restauration écologique
Résumé
In the past few decades, restoration has widely developed thanks to a rather favourable context, in particular legally speaking and regulatory framework-wise both at the European and French levels. Rediscovering the mitigation hierarchy "Avoid, Minimize, Restore" written in a 1976 French law, and implementing the E.U habitats directives or the E.U. water framework directive and various nation-wide or local incentive policies, thus led to the development of restoration. Restoration projects are nevertheless also confronted with administrative, socio-economic or technical barriers. The nature of restoration actions themselves implies to take into account their impacts, which can potentially be negative for biodiversity, through more or less heavy procedures. Considering local practices and perceptions is also important for the success of the restoration. Following the model of international networks, such as the SERI, the Francophone network for ecological restoration (REVER) aims at accompanying and at favouring the development of restoration by facilitating the relationships between the various stakeholders: scientists, site managers, etc., through the exchanges of knowledge and experiences. Among its actions, REVER organizes workshops. The diversity of the communications as well as of the participants illustrates the diversity of ecological restoration and restoration ecology stakeholders in France and will be presented.