“Ecological restoration is the process
of assisting the recovery of an
ecosystem that has been degraded,
damaged, or destroyed.”
Society for Ecological Restoration.(SER, 2002)
For more information please visit the Society for Ecological Restoration web site:
http://www.ser.org/content/ecological_restoration_primer.asp
Taken from the Overview The SER International Primer on Ecological Restoration. "Ecological restoration is an intentional activity that initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity and sustainability. Frequently, the ecosystem that requires restoration has been degraded, damaged, transformed or entirely destroyed as the direct or indirect result of human activities. In some cases, these impacts to ecosystems have been caused or aggravated by natural agencies such as wildfire, floods, storms, or volcanic eruption, to the point at which the ecosystem cannot recover its predisturbance state or its historic developmental trajectory."
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