Our Mission
From the degraded rainforests of Brazil to the arid landscapes of Morocco, Ecosystem Restoration Communities is a global movement that harnesses the collective power of individuals and communities to restore our planet’s ecosystems. Change takes root when it’s locally driven - and that’s why Ecosystem Restoration Communities are born, led, and sustained by the people who live there. Grounded in trust and community knowledge, they grow lasting solutions that ripple outward, educating, inspiring, and creating regional impact far beyond what traditional top-down conservation can achieve. When you support us, you help communities as they restore their land and livelihoods and foster a deep connection to nature - bringing hope, resilience, and global impact.
Our mission is to:
a) contribute to a fully functioning, peaceful, abundant and biologically diverse Earth through co-operative efforts for the ecological restoration of degraded lands; b) stimulate and support community based initiative, leadership, and capacity to implement activities and undertake interventions that result in restored ecological function, climate resilience, biodiversity enrichment, and restored water cycles while at the same time enhancing livelihoods and human well-being; c) disseminate knowledge, innovations and insights emanating from these community-based initiatives to policy makers, academia, practitioners and the general public; and d) train large numbers of people to restore the fundamental ecological integrity of earth, and to connect knowledge and expertise about these activities worldwide.
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Our Impact
Causes We Support
Countries We Serve
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The restoration work at communities draws carbon down and cools the surface temperature of the earth. Restoring degraded land also increases local biodiversity; restores water-systems; improves soil fertility; reduces soil erosion, floods and drought; and reestablishes entire food webs. Restoring the earth brings about a significant reduction in poverty through the return of sustainable and regenerative livelihoods in degraded areas, leading to a more beautiful and resilient Earth.
