environmental restoration
Healing damaged ecosystems
Environmental restoration is the process of returning a damaged ecosystem to a healthier or more natural state.
This may involve removing pollutants, reintroducing native species, or reversing human alterations to land and waterways: The environmental restoration of the wetlands took decades.
The goal is typically to recover ecological function rather than recreate an exact historical condition.
- clean airUncontaminated breathable gas
- successionFollowing in order
- reforestationReplanting depleted woodlands
- native plantingsVegetation original to region
- bioremediationLiving organisms detoxify pollutants
biodiversity · indigenous groups · policymakers · ecologists · erosion control · urban planners · carbon storage · carbon credits · ecological footprint · conservationists · land stewardship · pollination · climate change impacts · climate regulation · hydrology · flood mitigation · species reintroduction · dam removal
- water infrastructurewater main, aqueducts, dams, water tanks, water tower
- SuperfundSuperfund, Superfund sites, EPA, hazardous waste, remediation
environmental restorationenvironmental degradation
Decline of natural surroundings
habitat destruction · ecosystem collapse · deforestation · desertification · pollution
environmental restorationresource extraction
Obtaining substances from nature
ecocide · industrial development · overdevelopment · land clearing · slash-and-burn
environmental restorationbenign neglect
Purposeful non-intervention proving beneficial
abandonment · environmental preservation · non-intervention · preservationism · preservation
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