The park's importance to the whole region as a " center for education about the geology, flora and fauna of the Keilor Plains, and the restoration of degraded land " is important.
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The long history of livestock farming has transformed the area to open grasslands, with patches of ticket and blue bush ( " Pteronia incana " ) invasion on most of its degraded land.
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Locally, plantations can lessen soil erosion, provide a means to restore degraded lands, offset emissions and local impacts from fossil-fired power generation, and, perhaps, reduce demands on existing forests.
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Other low-cost options include reforestation of degraded land, which helps to take carbon dioxide out of the air even as it relieves the scarcity of wood products, protects watersheds and provides ecological and recreational benefits.
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But they say there are no quick fixes because Ethiopia faces a legacy of degraded lands, poor road networks, a high birth rate, disease and an agricultural base destroyed by years of civil war and government policies.
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Proof of this decline is that presently 15-20 % of Tibetan Plateau species are now considered endangered; and now because of this animal and plant absence, the soil quality of these degraded lands is very poor.
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development aims to alleviate rural poverty, and in 1995, in cooperation with the Syrian government, it started a project to rehabilitate over a million hectares of degraded land in the Syrian Badia.
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Water and wind erosion are the two primary causes of land degradation; combined, they are responsible for about 84 % of the global extent of degraded land, making excessive erosion one of the most significant environmental problems worldwide.
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Achieving some significant successes in promoting tree planting, arranging Arbor Days and furthering the scientific understanding of restoring degraded land, the MRA was ultimately largely unsuccessful in delivering large scale afforestation in the Black Country and was wound up in 1925.
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Established in 2001 in conjunction with the Puffin Foundation, the Teaneck Creek Conservancy has restored a plot of degraded land east of Teaneck Road near the intersection of Interstates 80 and 95, removing decades of debris and creating a network of of trails.
