The Earth Restoration Alliance (ERA) was inspired during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A meeting, with representatives from 35 different countries, took place at the Summit over which the ERA`s President, Sally Ranney, presided. It was here that the need and challenges of natural systems restoration became focused and recognized as the next challenge for the conservation movement.



Subsequently, the ERA was established as a 501 (c ) (3) organization in the USA to garner support for, and provide expertise to special projects aligned with its mission.



The Earth Restoration Alliance has a dual purpose:



- to promote, preserve, reclaim, restore, and regenerate the Earth`s biodiversity, with specific focus on wildlife, wildlands, and ecological sustainability of human systems;

- to explore, expose and provide insight into and potential solutions to the root causes of environmental degradation -"the why" of both individual and collective choices that are taking humanity down an ecologically and consequently a self-destructive path.



It is within this second purpose that ERA has joined with Wild Spirit Energies (WSE) to facilitate The Jaguar Plan (TJP).



The projects and activities to carry out ERA`s purposes and objectives, along with TJP, range from partnering with ZERI (Zero Emissions Research Initiatives) to promote no-waste industrial and agricultural systems in the U.S. and educating the general public and youth about ecological sustainability, to protecting threatened species and their habitat, supporting large landscape conservation initiatives, and preserving biodiversity of the planet`s remaining wild areas.