Local Communities Must be Prioritized for Successful Restoration Projects: Study
By Hamza Badamasi Previous studies in ecosystem restoration that support top-down policy approaches to restore land as a component of global land-conservation efforts run the risk of subverting people's livelihoods, food security, and eviction of people from their lands, leading to human rights abuses and eroding long-term conservation benefits, a new study reveals. __ Ecosystem restoration is recognized as a crucial effort in preserving biodiversity and stabilizing our planet. The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the decade of ecosystem restoration, urging countries worldwide to devote resources to healing the planet. Researchers have proposed a number of global priority maps in order to determine where restoration funding should be directed. For example, Dr. Bernardo B.N. Strassburg and colleagues published a notable and influential research paper in 2020 that uses spatial map...