Ecosystem Restoration A Massive And Growing Market

Previously a niche market, ecosystem restoration has surged in the past five years.

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April 7, 2005, 1:00 PM PDT

"Just a niche market in the 1980s, ecosystem restoration has surged in the past five years, with announced multi-year projects exceeding $70 billion worldwide and annual revenues in the US of more than $1 billion a year, industry sources say.

Funding for such obvious restoration projects far exceeds global funding for basic conservation. Because of that, future restoration will one day be a mammoth industry vital to the planet's well-being, some say. Already ecological restoration is a major part of a "huge, almost entirely hidden" economic sector in which more than $1 trillion is being poured into restoration, much of which benefits the environment, says Storm Cunningham, an ecorestoration advocate in Alexandria, Va."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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Wednesday, April 6, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

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