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Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: Aug 08, 2007
All Areas of Focus » Conservation »

Land Restoration

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Land restoration is the practice of restoring the ecosystem functions, such as nutrient cycling, the hydrological balance and ecosystem resilience, to land that has been degraded, contaminated, or disturbed by human development and industrial activity. Restoring the original flora of the site may be a goal of land restoration.
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Tn_picture10 The Land Restoration Trust aims, within the next 10 years, to acquire, own and manage 10,000 hectares of previously derelict and under-used land, to deliver environmentally informed, community-led regeneration

Tn_society_ecological_restoration The Society for Ecological Restoration's mission is "to promote ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and reestablishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture."
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remediation, reclamation, brownfield, conservation, preservation, land improvement, pollution mitigation, habitat restoration, open space creation, planting, revegetation, indicator species, habitat quality, habitat management, invasive species, endangered species, biogeochemical cycles, erosion, community development, ecosystem restoration, ecological restoration, environmental restoration, bioremediation, Superfund

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