People restoring degraded ecosystems through science and nature.
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The mission of the Center for Ecosystem Recovery is to advance the science and practice of ecological restoration through research, partnerships and education for the recovery of living resources.
What We Do
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Science
We establish scientific, evidence-based guidelines to restore ecosystems in a holistic manner to generate ecological uplift at the landscape scale, benefiting biodiversity, water quality and people.
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Policy
We advocate for policies, regulatory processes and funding that align with the evolving science of ecosystem restoration, creating a model program for accelerating the recovery of degraded watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay and around the world.
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Restoration
We establish demonstration watershed restoration projects to implement, monitor and adaptively manage process-based ecosystem restoration and document results.
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Education
We promote human connections with local lands and waterways through education, outreach and increasing public access to nature in order to empower community-driven restoration and science.
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“Protect what survives; repair what has been damaged; connect places that have been severed; collaborate as never before; and make the whole effort personal by bringing the natural world back into the people’s daily lives, wherever they are.”
Tony Hiss, Rescuing the Planet
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