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Declaration for Ecological Restoration by Botanic Gardens 11th
April 2011 Above: Habitat recovery of scrub thorn vegetation in
the Soan Valley, Punjab Province, Pakistan (March 2011). Planted
seedlings of Acacia modesta and Olea ferruginea are protected
with branches of Dodonea viscosa. A joint project of Government
College University Lahore, Pakistan, and BGCI. The Botanic
Gardens Ecological Restoration Initiative ('The New York
Declaration‘) was agreed by eleven organisations at a meeting in
New York, USA in March 2011. 'Terrestrial ecosystems are being
degraded and used unsustainably worldwide and are at risk of
further degradation or imminent loss. Forty percent of the
world’s forests have been completely destroyed and much of what
is left is fragmented. In many of the more seriously affected
places, remaining habitats are not adequate for biodiversity
conservation nor can they provide ke