Nowhere else in the world has the natural ecology of a land been changed so dramatically and quickly as in New Zealand - where in the space of the last 700 years successive waves of human settlement have introduced a bewildering array of new species and cleared and burned vast tracks of the countryside to render the remaining landscapes almost unrecognisable from their original condition.
To preserve the vestiges of the natural ecology requires important lowland habitat prized for farming to be managed in a way that protects and restores the vital habitats and creates links between them to allow a place for our natural ecology in the altered world we have created for them.
This topic explores that following topics:
To preserve the vestiges of the natural ecology requires important lowland habitat prized for farming to be managed in a way that protects and restores the vital habitats and creates links between them to allow a place for our natural ecology in the altered world we have created for them.
This topic explores that following topics:
- Zone 5: A wilderness area that has little intervention by people except for foraging or hunting and perhaps in New Zealand, pest and weed control.
- Native biodiversity: Explores the unique and distinctive biodiversity of New Zealand and strategies to protect and restore habitat in areas next to farmland.
- Rewilding nature: Global strategies to bring nature back and re-connect with it.
Ecological Restoration
Ecological restoration aims to recreate, initiate, or accelerate the recovery of an ecosystem that has been disturbed. Disturbances are environmental changes that alter ecosystem structure and function.
Ecological restoration focuses on repairing the damage human activities have caused to natural ecosystems and seeks to return them to an earlier state or to another state that is closely related to one unaltered by human activities. Ecological restoration is distinguished from the practice of conservation, which is primarily concerned with preventing further losses to ecosystems. Ecological restoration is the process of reclaiming habitat and ecosystem functions by restoring the lands and waters on which plants and animals depend. Restoration is a corrective step that involves eliminating or modifying causes of ecological degradation and re-establishing the natural processes — like natural fires, floods, or predator-prey relationships — that sustain and renew ecosystems over time.
Ecological restoration focuses on repairing the damage human activities have caused to natural ecosystems and seeks to return them to an earlier state or to another state that is closely related to one unaltered by human activities. Ecological restoration is distinguished from the practice of conservation, which is primarily concerned with preventing further losses to ecosystems. Ecological restoration is the process of reclaiming habitat and ecosystem functions by restoring the lands and waters on which plants and animals depend. Restoration is a corrective step that involves eliminating or modifying causes of ecological degradation and re-establishing the natural processes — like natural fires, floods, or predator-prey relationships — that sustain and renew ecosystems over time.