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Restoring floodplains can help regulate flood events and mitigate flood related damage. [6] Floodplain restoration can also increase biodiversity by creating new or restoring degraded habitat and encourage growth of native species. [7] [8] Methods of wetland restoration in the floodplain, can help better water quality. [9]
Peatland restoration is a term describing measures to restore the original form and function of peatlands, or wet peat-rich areas. [1] [2] This landscape globally occupies 400 million hectares or 3% of land surface on Earth.
The Society for Ecological Restoration defines restoration as "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed." [1] Restoration ecology is the academic study of the science of restoration, whereas ecological restoration is the implementation by practitioners. [21]
The Yellow River Wetland Conservation Project is an initiative in China aimed at preserving and restoring the critical wetland ecosystems along the Yellow River, also known as the Huang He. The Yellow River is one of China's major rivers, and it flows through several provinces, supporting various wetland habitats and wildlife.
The Harshaw Riparian Exclosure in southern Arizona was established in 1986 to help protect and restore the riparian zone along Harshaw Creek. Notice the young cottonwood and sycamore trees at the left. Mount Polley mine restoration of the river banks and surrounding areas of Hazeltine Creek in British Columbia, Canada
A simplified definition of wetland is "an area of land that is usually saturated with water". [14] More precisely, wetlands are areas where "water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season". [15]
No Net Loss as a goal for wetland's policy was recommended in 1987 at the National Wetlands Policy Forum . [6] It was first adopted by President George H.W. Bush administration in 1989. The policy, which represented compromise between development and conservation, was grounded on the needs to protect the wetlands by creating and restoring the ...
However, plans created between 2001 and 2006 reimagined it as a 2,200 acre park, the largest park built in the state of New York in over a century. Construction began in 2008 to restore the area back to its original wetland ecosystem, complete with open waterways, sweet-gum swamps, prairies, and meadows of wildflowers.