The man with his productive activities has degraded the vast majority of natural spaces and through ecological restoration it is intended to return the ecosystems affected by these activities to their original state.
The ecological restoration is to carry out a series of corrective measures environmental degradation that can return to ambient conditions prior to the modification of the same.
Most degraded terrestrial ecosystems are characterized by the loss of vegetation and soil, and aquatic ecosystems by polluted waters where few species are able to survive.
What is ecological restoration?
Ecological restoration is "the process of intentionally altering a site to establish an ecosystem". This process consists of altering the degraded space in order to activate the resilience capacity that allows restoring the environmental conditions of the environment and returning it to its natural and socioeconomic value.
The resilience is a natural ability of the environment that allows them to return to initial conditions after suffering a disturbance. An ecosystem is considered degraded when it has lost this quality.
To achieve this objective, there are no concrete models to follow, but the strategies of action to recover a space must be adjusted to the specific problem of the place.
The ability to restore an environment will depend on the state of the ecosystem before and after degradation and the type of damage caused.
Phases of Ecological Restoration
To achieve an effective ecological restoration, like Bush Regeneration, five phases must be followed.
The first phase consists of carrying out an initial ecological diagnosis to determine the causes and processes that have caused the degradation of the ecosystem.
In the second phase, the objectives are defined to reestablish the ecological processes that allow to recover the resilience of the ecosystem and the third phase is based on developing the action strategies to obtain the objectives.
The next phase consists of putting into practice the action strategies on the ground and the last one is the evaluation phase where the ecosystem is monitored to see how the restoration evolves and to assess the effectiveness of the interventions and the methodology used.
What is ecological restoration for?
It mainly consists of returning to a damaged space its ecological values in addition to its functionality at a socioeconomic level. The ecological restoration acts directly on the cause of degradation thus through adaptive management is achieved unlock ecological processes that can recover the resilience of the medium.
Ecological restoration to be effective must bring together the environmental, socio-economic and cultural framework.
As we can see, ecological restoration holds a great place in the process of saving environment from the negative effects of development. Sometimes, it happens when a person is going to perform any developmental activity on a site, the flora and fauna present near the site may get affected badly from the development.
In dealing with such problems, it is required by that person that he/she should provide a Biodiversity Development Assessment Report (BDAR) to the authorities which shows the ways by which the effects can be reduced.
If you are also planning to carry out a developmental activity, we suggest you to consult experts for the preparation of Biodiversity Development Assessment Report (BDAR) so that you can do this work without affecting the environment.
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