“The last word in ignorance
is the man who says of an animal or
plant:
"What good is it?"
If the land mechanism as a whole is
good, then every part is good,
whether we understand it or not.”
– Aldo Leopold
The
NOAA Restoration Center
The
Restoration Center (housed in the National Marine
Fisheries Service, Office of Habitat Conservation)
performs restoration pursuant to federal legislation
and improves the state of restoration ecology
and habitat management.
Working
with others, the Restoration Center achieves its
mission by:
-
Restoring degraded habitats
- Advancing the science of coastal habitat
restoration
- Transferring restoration technology to the
private sector, the public and other government
agencies
- Fostering habitat stewardship and a conservation
ethic
What
is restoration?
For
America's living marine resources (LMR), "restoration"
means returning a polluted or degraded environment
as closely as possible to a successful, self-sustaining
ecosystem with both clean water and healthy habitats.
These habitats support fish and wildlife, and
human uses such as swimming, diving, boating,
and recreational and commercial fishing. Restoration
usually doesn't focus on a single species but
strives to replicate the original natural system
to support numerous species. The goal is to expedite
natural processes in rebuilding a healthy, functioning
natural ecosystem that works like it did before
it was polluted or destroyed. Restoration also
means an actual increase in LMR habitats, as measured
both by structural and functional characteristics
that have the ability to support fish and wildlife.
The
Cousteau Society
The
Cousteau Society is a membership-supported, not-for-profit
organization. Through cooperation with independent
scientists, expedition research ranges from measuring
the contribution of nutrients in rivers to the global
ocean system, to developing methods to measure primary
productivity in the sea, to using new resource management
approaches to achieve environmentally sound, sustainable
social progress.
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