What is restoration?

Question

What is restoration?

and how does it differe from conservation???

Thanks!

Answer 1

Environmental restoration is a term common in the citizens’ environmental movement. Environmental restoration is closely allied with (or perhaps sometimes used interchangeably with) ecological restoration or environmental remediation. In the U.S., remediation is the term used more in the realms of industry, public policy, and the civil services.

In the 1987 edition of his book Restoring the Earth: How Americans are Working to Renew our Damaged Environment, scientific editor and writer John J. Berger defined environmental restoration (or “natural resource restoration”) as follows: "… A process in which a damaged resource is renewed. Biologically. Structurally. Functionally."

Conservation is about keeping what is already in existence going.

Answer 2

Restoration is fixing it. Conservation is preserving it so that it won't need to be restored.