Restoring Biodiversity

The size of natural habitats and their transformation into fully protected biodiversity reserves, meaning with minimal human presence and negligible impact, is a decisive factor for safeguarding biodiversity and halting its constant decline, which is recorded year after year.

The larger and more vital the habitats, the less humans interfere and the more they thrive over time.

Europe has enacted the Nature Restoration Law, a tool for the restoration and conservation of European habitats. This measure, although not explicitly intended, will likely lead to a decrease in agricultural and meat production in Europe, thereby redirecting demand toward areas of the world that resort to deforestation to meet their domestic needs and to supply global food trade.

What should we do? We must rethink our economic and behavioral models: there is no alternative.

An immediate goal

Stop the direct consumption of HABITATS and their fragmentation, by connecting the remaining habitats with ecological corridors that, by restoring connectivity, strengthen all forms of life other than human life—from mammals to bacteria.

The long-term goal

As indicated by E. O. Wilson, we must understand that the survival of the human species depends on how we share planet Earth with other forms of life. Let us set a limit to our demographic growth, a limit to the occupation of new land taken from biodiversity, and reserve 50% of the planet for other life forms. Let us develop ecological corridors that reconnect fragmented habitats.