Brazil resolves to restore its ecosystems After numerous
national workshops over 13 months, the Ecological Restoration
Initiative’s action plan has been established to combat
ecosystem degradation caused by productive activities,
especially agricultural livestock, in the country. The last
remnants of Brazil’s coastal shrubland, for example, are in
danger of being lost, and are among the country’s biomes most in
need of restoration. To save these areas, officials are
employing a process of ecological restoration, an approach that
can return the structure, function, diversity and the dynamics
of an original ecosystem to a degraded ecosystem. Of course,
many initiatives and institutions in Brazil are already working
on this issue. But what IUCN’s office in Brasilia found is that
the potential and the scope of this work would be improved by
better coordination among them. Thus, a proposal to create an
alliance was born, which in addition to having a mission
statement and common objectives, now has an action plan.