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 <blockquote> **Recovery of a habitat** is linked to the ecological succession of a site. That is the site returning naturally to the state in which it had been before being degraded or destroyed without any intervention from humans (CFIOR websites).</blockquote>
+**Ecosystem gardening** is a practise developed at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary for gathering, propagating and distributing endangered species and their respective create microclimates with the aim of full biodiversity for tropical ecosystems with high feature diversity and endemism. For this purpose indigenous women are trained to become ecosystem gardeners. In the future they aim to become a parataxonomy and ecosystem gardening training center.
+=== Landscapes: ===
+  * the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, Kerala, India > high biodiversity ecosystem restoration with a focus on endangered species
+  * Loess Plateau, China > replanting the desert the size of Belgium
+  * Everglades Restoration Plan, USA >
+  * Masarang Foundation, Kalimantan, Indonesia > combining ecosystem restoration and crops
+  * Baviaanskloof, South Africa >
+  * Tompkins Conservation, Argentina, Chili
+  * Las Gaviotas, Colombia >
+  * Banten Bay, Indonesia > mangroves
+=== Natural Resilience ===
+Willem Ferwerda, Netherlands: an initiative to create Ecosystem Restoration Partnerships between the private sector, NGO's, local people, farmers and ecologists to restore 200 million hectares for which a budget of 450 billion Euro spread over 20 years.