Hazel Thornton is Senior Programme Officer, Nature Restored, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).

Ecosystem Restoration and Species Recovery Benefit People and Planet

Rhinoceroses in Namibia, 2016. Southern white rhinos in Africa are considered near threatened; black rhinos are critically endangered. Pixabay/kolibri5
Oyster bed, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration, United States, 2007. USEPA Environmental-Protection-Agency via Wikimedia Commons
Recovering pelicans, Alabama, United States, 2011. Tom MacKenzie, USFWS, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration via Wikimedia Commons
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 Ecosystem restoration offers the opportunity to effectively halt and reverse degradation, improve ecosystem services and recover biodiversity.

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