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| ====== Ecological Restoration====== | ====== Ecological Restoration====== | ||
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| The UN has declared 2021 - 2030 as the decade of Ecosystem Restoration. | The UN has declared 2021 - 2030 as the decade of Ecosystem Restoration. | ||
| Restoration goals reflect political choices and differ by place and culture. Ecological restoration draws on a wide range of ecological concepts. | Restoration goals reflect political choices and differ by place and culture. Ecological restoration draws on a wide range of ecological concepts. | ||
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| ===== Examples ===== | ===== Examples ===== | ||
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| Royal Botanic Garden in Tal Al-Rumman - Jordan\\ | Royal Botanic Garden in Tal Al-Rumman - Jordan\\ | ||
| Farmers where banned from letting their animals graze in this area for 3 years. Plants that where thought to be extinct reemerged. | Farmers where banned from letting their animals graze in this area for 3 years. Plants that where thought to be extinct reemerged. | ||
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| Not enough farmland for the growing population put strain on the available soil and degraded it. People where forced to move down from the hills into the Rugezi Wetland and drained it. This damaged not only the ecosystem of the marsh but also the capital Kagali which is dependant of the water power generated by the water flowing through the wetland. Government helped the farmers restoring the hillsites for farming.\\ | Not enough farmland for the growing population put strain on the available soil and degraded it. People where forced to move down from the hills into the Rugezi Wetland and drained it. This damaged not only the ecosystem of the marsh but also the capital Kagali which is dependant of the water power generated by the water flowing through the wetland. Government helped the farmers restoring the hillsites for farming.\\ | ||
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| + | a plan to built a belt of trees from Dakar in the west to Djibuti in the east across the Sahel Zone in Africa to stop the expansion of the Sahara. Trees are planted in a dug out half moon shape to better retain water. The technique is actually native to the Sahel Zone but was forgotten over time | ||
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| + | The search engine that plants trees :) | ||
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| ===== Critique ===== | ===== Critique ===== | ||
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| + | "As big finance announcements make international headlines, activists and researchers are questioning long-held assumptions and shedding light on failed projects that created limited (or zero) benefits for biodiversity and carbon storage. A small number even harmed fragile ecosystems like grasslands through ill-advised tree-planting campaigns. | ||
| + | One common theme lies behind most of those failures: Local communities — and the marginalized groups within them — were not leading the projects and received few, if any, of the rewards." | ||
| ===== Further Reading ===== | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
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