Ecosystem Restoration is Now a Global Priority: Time to Roll up our Sleeves

摘要: Ecosystem restoration is now globally recognized as a key component in conservation programs and essential to the quest for long-term sustainability of our human-dominated planet. Restoration scientists practitioners are on frontline will be increasingly called upon get involved large scale addressing immediate environmental crises challenges. Here, we summarize advances mainstreaming ecological global policy deliberations during last year, culminating recent meeting United Nations Convention Biological Diversity. We also provide references those seeking more information, set out an agenda how community could respond act these developments. However, underline need caution prudence; must not promise than can deliver. Thirty years after emergence scientific discipline practice, there remain many obstacles misconceptions about what achieved at scales. Yet, clearly old adage applies here: nothing ventured, gained.