04/22/2024
🌍✨ Every day is at the Ecological Health Network!
Since 2017, we have been serving as a bridging organization, helping to connect scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and citizens to accelerate and enhance restoration efforts and make them more holistic, i.e., addressing ecological and social objectives simultaneously.
With IPBES reporting that at least three-quarters of terrestrial ecosystems are degraded to some extent, there is a stunning need for the rapid and well-supported deployment of a wide range of practical, bottom-up and top-down responses to assist and mitigate the ecological health and human health crises we face. Our work focuses on catalyzing, coordinating, and supporting the development of social-ecological impact networks that address critical gaps in holistic ecological restoration science, education, and outreach.
We are motivated by the history and practice of ecological restoration, which offers evidence that much of the harm that has been done to the Earth can be undone. By accelerating the recovery of imperiled ecosystems, we can adapt to climate change impacts, enhance food and water security, protect biodiversity, and improve our individual and collective health and well-being.
Stay tuned as we continue to celebrate this week by sharing examples of the Ecological Health Network’s sites, pilot sites, hubs, and the budding bioregional social-ecological impact networks that are increasing the amount and effectiveness of ecological restoration worldwide to improve the health of the ecosystems of which we are a part and upon which we depend.
📷: Image of showing North and Central America taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
