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Ecological restoration is an important part of conservation work.
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Now in a perfect world, we wouldn't have broken up all these biomes and whatnot in the first place.
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But humans mess with a lot of stuff, so we got to fix it, because none of this stuff is going to adapt to us in any suitable amount of time.
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We have to be the ones to fix the things that we caused.
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But on the other side, we want to make sure we do it well.
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We can't just come up with some half -bake idea, to put out there and it caused even more damage than in the first place.
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For instance, one option for restoring coral reefs is to place structures down in the deep water where that coral can grow off of because coral require a hard substrate and lots of sunlight.
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So putting a hard thing in the ocean like just a big block of metal and giving them something to grow off of so it's not just clean to sweep away sand...