 Hi everyone, Ashley from Ecosystem Restoration Camps here. I am here to give you the update from the foundation for the month April 2020. So we've had a really exciting month despite the continued lockdown caused by the coronavirus which has meant that our camps have not been open to the public but we've been very busy with doing lots of stuff online. This month we saw the live stream that was organised by John called The Great Work of Our Time that featured some incredible people from around the world who are taking part in Ecosystem Restoration such as Jane Goodall, Paul Stamets, Charles Eisenstein, Willem Ferroder from Commonland and loads of other people who all came together to discuss the importance of ecosystem restoration at this time and regenerative agriculture I should say too and it was really well attended and really well received and yeah seemed like a really excellent and popular way to communicate with people about this subject so we're thinking and planning our next live streams and if you have any ideas for any live streams that you like to see please do let us know via social media via our email address. We'd love to hear your thoughts so that was really great to have so many people find out about the camps and get behind them. The second thing is we announced a partnership with Embercoom which is becoming a camp in Devon in the UK and Embercoom is a beautiful place that has been running experiences for people around nature connection spirituality and now they are turning their focus to rewilding so through a partnership with us we'll be creating some some learning experiences for people who want to learn about rewilding and take part in the process and yeah those workshops will be available once once Embercoom is reopened again hopefully in the autumn and we've also been working very hard on getting our online course ready it is a fast approaching the first module starts on May 15th and we have a lot of a lot's been happening with creating that course it's been a massive amount of work we started working on it in like March last year but we're really really proud of what we've created and really excited by how many people have signed up and how many ecosystem restoration plans are going to come out of this course if you wanted to take the course you didn't get around to it this time then we'll be running the course again in January and we'll be running it twice a year for the foreseeable future so we're taking sign-ups for January now if you'd like to register the next thing is we've started doing online trainings with our camp coordinators we created a camp coordinator what's that group and camp coordinators have been sharing little videos of their sites and their stories with each other so we're building a beautiful community there's about 25 people now in that group and yeah we've started doing online trainings with them so the first training was with Oliver Gauchet our restoration coordinator on how to fill in the restoration brief that he's created which is essentially a document where people who want to restore land i.e the current coordinators fill in the key information that they need to inform the creation of a plan and the that meeting was recorded and is available on youtube channel if you want to watch it we are next going to be doing an online training with them on how to create site maps using free tools like google earth and google maps and we will also put that one up on our youtube channel as well and then we're discussing the topics that the camp coordinates can teach each other based on the techniques that they're implementing at their camps so that's really great um we also started doing our members live q and a's with the camp coordinators themselves so if you're a member then we'll invite you to a q and a with the camp coordinators where you can talk to them about what it is that they're doing how they're doing it what their plans are how you can get involved and we uh we did our first one with camp altiplano you can join as a member for contribution of your choice so it's really inclusive anyone can join depending on your income and the california section of our website is now finished part of our organizational model is that we're developing hubs in places where there are lots of camps in one place so regional hubs support camps in their area and our first regional hub is in california so we've created a california section on our website for all the camps in california so if you would like to take a look at that then please check it out and the last thing is very excitingly we have witnessed the largest increase in membership that the ERC has ever seen since we started in 2016-17 which is really exciting it shows that people are really getting behind our idea and if you're a member i want to say massive massive thank you to you for your continued support contributions towards restoring ecosystems around the world you really are making a world of difference so thanks everyone and i will see you for the next video bye