Wanna go camping and help restore damaged ecosystems?
The vision of Ecosystem Restoration Camps is to have one million people from all over the world come together and unite by the year 2030, and help restore damaged and degraded land and ecosystems while camping, dancing and celebrating the gift of life.
Welcome to Ecological Restoration Camping
They help train people in earth care and restoration techniques that focus on restoring the land, in a camp like setting.
They provide hands-on practical opportunities for people to get their hands dirty, while engaging and practicing new approaches to ecological landscape restoration.
Volunteers come together and help restore land, rivers and other natural ecosystems.
This helps to increase organic matter and the life in the soil, helps to retain water and reduce pollution from stormwater runoff, all while sequestering carbon.
The camps help improve the livelihoods of farmers, ranchers, communities and in the communities where the camps are located.
How does it work?
Throughout history, indigenous peoples have naturally known how to manage and care for the land in a resourceful and regenerative way.
They intuitively knew that it was time to move on once the land around them had been overly hunted and harvested in order to allow the land to replenish and grow back into balance.
However, it’s only in the last 50 years that industrial agriculture and resource extraction has completely decimated and ravaged lands and ecosystems around the world.
The good news is regenerative land practices are slowly re-emerging, traditional ways of land stewardship are taking root and becoming more mainstream, with one of the most important ones being ecosystem restoration.
Ecosystem restoration focuses on restoring degraded land back to a regenerative state, where its natural functions are healthy and the web of life can return.
All the ancient knowledge, tools, techniques for healing and caring for the land that our ancestors used and practices on a daily basis are still with us, most of it is well documented.
It’s up to each one of us what we want to do with it, we can heal the global biosphere, and have a forest party along the way.
The time is now to create ecologically abundant, thriving ecosystems that nourish our bodies and minds on a globally collective scale.
Below is a short video of the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps.
Ecosystem Restoration Camps are real places, making a real impact
Some of the amazing benefits include;
- Making soils more permeable and sponge-like, this allows rainwater to infiltrate down into the soil to help replenish underground aquifers, rivers and streams, and helps prevent stormwater runoff and flooding which is a leading cause of erosion and soil loss.
- Returns organic matter back to the soil, which helps feed soil life and complete the lifecycle of nature.
- Helps draw carbon out of the atmosphere and back into the ground where it belongs.
- Camps emphasise native plants and trees, food producing plants, shrubs, fruit and nut trees for human and nature to coexist exquisitely, which also helps local economies and nature thrive harmoniously in a truly regenerative way.
- Knowledge about the local landbase is learned from camps including regenerative agriculture, sustainable living and restoration of the land well into the future for the next 7 generations and beyond!
- Campers are able to come together and heal the land and learn life long skills for healing the land including; collecting and seeds, growing native plants, producing food, rainwater harvesting, building earthen structures, rebuilding soil health and learning from the land from close observation and personal reflection which leads to both human and ecosystem transformations.
- Camps help sequester carbon and heal the soil, and help mitigate the negative effects of climate change.
- Increasing native plant and tree biomass vegetation helps to cool down the temperature of the surrounding micro-climate.
- Camps increase wildlife habitat and welcome back an organic influx of native biodiversity that has a ripple effect on the entire ecosystem.
- Camps help regulate and restore earth’s natural hydrological cycles, thus replenishing streams, and ground water, and helps to cool down and regulate the earths global temperature.
Their Impact and reach so far
37 Restoration Camps setup around the world.
Over 9,209 restoration campers have already camped around the world.
Over 185,518 native plants and trees planted.
2,721 hectares under restoration and land stewardship.
Interested in learning how to restore ecosystems remotely online? Check out their ecosystem restoration design online course here.
The course will introduce you to the ecosystem restoration design principles and broaden your understanding of the restoration process, while gaining practical knowledge and know how.
The course is taught by 16 of the worlds best ecosystem restoration practitioners in the world, you will learn all the various methods and techniques for restoring the earth and get the blueprint and skills for implementing a sound restoration plan in your neighborhood or village.
Plus, you will be directly supporting and helping the ecosystem restoration movement continue to flourish like an eagle.
Become a month contributing member and leave a lasting legacy
You can also directly help fund the camps around the world by becoming a monthly supporting member, starting at just $5.00. This is one of the best legacies that a person can leave behind.