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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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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0|How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0|How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert]]\\
 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 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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-[[https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-search-engine/|Ecosia - the search Engine that plants trees]] +[[https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-search-engine/|Ecosia - the search Engine that plants trees]]\\ 
- +The search engine that plants trees :)
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 +[[https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/tab-for-a-cause|Tab for a Cause: How Does It Work? Is It Legit?]]\\
 +Browser Extension for chrome that lets you generate donations for various causes by opening tabs
  
  
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 ===== Critique ===== ===== Critique =====
 +"While we can successfully restore biodiversity, structure, and function to a degraded ecosystem, ecological restoration is not a substitute for conservation, nor should the promise of restoration be used to justify destruction or unsustainable use. In reality, restoration may not succeed in re-establishing the full assemblage of native species or the full extent of the original ecosystem’s structure and function." \\
  
  
 +[[https://www.wri.org/insights/people-centered-ecosystem-restoration|6 Ways to Ensure Ecosystem Restoration Prioritizes People]] \\
 +"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 =====
 https://ser-rrc.org/what-is-ecological-restoration \\ https://ser-rrc.org/what-is-ecological-restoration \\
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 https://www.allcreation.org/home/regrowing-loess-plateau https://www.allcreation.org/home/regrowing-loess-plateau
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 +https://www.harrisbugg.com/portfolio/royal-botanic-garden/
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 +https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/11/great-green-wall-initiative-offers-unique-opportunity-to-combat-climate-change-in-africa-un-agency/