Looking to help restore the natural world? Here’s your guide.
Looking to help restore the natural world? Here’s your guide. Food, water, medicine, energy: the planet’s ecosystems provide the essentials of life, so long as they’re taken care of. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been happening. During the last several decades, human development has pushed many of the world’s forests, savannahs and other natural systems to the brink of collapse. To counteract that decline, the United Nations Environment Programme and several partners are launching a practical guide to restoring ecosystems. It provides tips to individuals, communities, businesses and government agencies, highlighting how they can revive the natural spaces around them. The guide comes just ahead of the launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration , a global drive to halt the degradation of land and oceans, protect biodiversity, and rebuild ecosystems. The practical guide contains pointers on how people can design their own restoration project, c...