Not exact matches
$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small
Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and
restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property /
ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures
As the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural
ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for
granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and
restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.»
The government of Indonesia has
granted conservationists a 100,000 - acre concession of forest in Bukit Tigapuluh, also called Thirty Hills, for the purpose of
ecosystem restoration.
In October 2013, PT.RMU's application for an
Ecosystem Restoration Concession was approved by the Minister of Forestry, who
granted the rights to 108,255 ha in Katingan for the next 60 years.