Ecological

Restoration
Ecological Restoration

 is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been

degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
 is a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and re-establishing an
ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.

Members of the Dai ethnic minority replant an area of forest on a hill that is
considered as a holy site at Mangyangguan, Xishuangbanna, China. Photo:
Barney Wilczak
 Two Essential Components of Restoration

Science Community
 the intellectual and  a group of people
practical activity living in the same
encompassing the place or having a
systematic study of the particular
structure and behavior characteristic in
of the physical and common.
natural world through
observation and
experiment
Example of Ecological Restoration

West Creek

Shaker Lakes

Scranton Flats