{"id":1030,"date":"2005-04-07T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/07\/eco-restoration-firms-see-growing-profits\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T15:11:00","slug":"eco-restoration-firms-see-growing-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/eco-restoration-firms-see-growing-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Restoration Firms See Growing Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"
From Treehugger, news<\/a> that ecosystems restoration work is hot. “Keith Bowers, chairman of the Society for Ecological Restoration International, says: ‘From an ecological restoration standpoint, there’s something on the order of tens of billions of dollars in the pipeline just in this country.” On one level, this is encouraging: governments particularly are placing emphasis on repairing damaged ecosystems that provide millions of dollars worth of “services.” At the same time, I’m bothered by a fact late in the post: “Funding for such restoration projects far exceeds global funding for basic conservation.” I would hope that we could at least equalize this equation so maybe eco-restoration doesn’t have to be multi-billion dollar concern down the road…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: ecosystems<\/a>, restoration<\/a><\/p>\n