Ecosystem Restoration Communities

So many causes need attention, but all of them rely on one foundation: functioning ecosystems. Without a living planet, nothing else holds.
This GivingTuesday, support restoration grounded in ecological science and community action.
#ItStartsWithEarth

www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/donate/

The Wildfire Resilience Training - Ecosystem Restoration Communities Through this Wildfire Resilience Training, learn proven strategies from a network of experts to help build fire resilient landscapes.

Our Wildfire Resilience Training intro webinar is happening today - Monday, Dec 1 at 6pm PST.
Learn how experts in ecology, design and post-fire recovery are helping land stewards build true resilience.
Join us live: www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/learn/wildfi...

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ERC’s 2020–2025 Impact Report shows measurable restoration at scale: 103,000+ ha under active recovery, 10.9M trees planted with a 77% survival rate, and 42,000 people trained in applied ecosystem restoration.
Read the report: heyzine.com/flip-book/2a...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Wildfire Resilience Training Webinar - November 27. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Wildfire Resilience Training Webinar - November 27. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Tomorrow’s Wildfire Resilience Training webinar is your chance to meet the expert teaching team and learn how the course can help you prepare your land and community for wildfire.

Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Curious about what the Becoming a Regenerative Farmer training is really like? Here’s what 2025 student Gail Buswell shared about her experience. If you’re thinking about applying for 2026, her testimonial says it all.

Partners of the More Trees Now project met in Oppido Lucano to harvest 1,000+ seedlings for the ERC Rocciaviva hub. Together, we’re adapting this volunteer-led method for Mediterranean climates to boost reforestation, biodiversity, and community action across Europe. #ErasmusMoreTreesNow

Today! Wildfire Resilience Webinar 🔥
Join us at 6pm PST to meet Matt Trumm, explore our unique training, and learn fire-resilient strategies from lived experience post-Camp Fire.
Free. Ask questions. Dive in.
#WildfireResilience #Regeneration

www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/learn/wildfi...

CRITICAL: R200,000 fund to keep fighting the Gansbaai Fire We need your urgent help to sustain the heroes fighting to protect our forest restoration sites right now. Since Saturday (25 Oct 2025), the Cape Overberg region has been battling the massive Gansbaai...

Donate here: www.givengain.com/campaign/cri...

Wildfire threatens Greenpop's 160,000+ trees near Cape Town. 1,700 hectares burned, equipment damaged, unplanned costs mounting. Local firefighters + Greenpop team working to protect Africa's southernmost indigenous forest restoration. Active patrolling & fire resilience efforts needed. Donate now.

Wildfire Resilience Webinar This Week! 🔥
Free intro webinar: meet Matt Trumm, explore the wildfire training developed through lived experience.
For landowners, practitioners & communities in fire-prone areas.
Register: www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/learn/wildfi...

Month of Regeneration - Mud Valley Institute Join us in November 2025 for a month of action and volunteering to support ecosystem restoration in the southwestern Algarve.

In the Algarve this November? Join the Month of Regeneration: hands-on agroforestry, water retention, post-fire restoration, and native tree planting across 8 locations. Learn restoration methods while working alongside local changemakers. Details: mudvalleyinstitute.org/get-involved...

Becoming a Regenerative Farmer Training | Henbant Main Intro Page for Becoming a Regenerative Farmer Training

UK farming has lost 60% of its insects in 20 years. Industrial agriculture is breaking our ecosystems.
But there's another way.
Join our Becoming a Regenerative Farmer training and learn to grow food that heals the land, builds community, & actually makes money.
Free webinar Nov 6th→ henbant.org/brf

Bonus: grazing herbivores reduce wildfire fuel loads while creating natural firebreaks (see GrazeLIFE study, Portugal). 2 animals, 1 regenerating system. This is the work across the ERC movement. Real land, real data, real impact.

The cascade: Selective grazing → wildflower diversity ↑. Dung introduction → beetle colonization → bat/bird activity ↑. Trampling → microhabitat creation. Fur/dung → seed dispersal. They've even self-optimized fencing routes. This is applied restoration ecology. 🔄

At ERC Embercombe (UK), two Dexter heifers are demonstrating keystone grazing ecology in real-time. Kit and Kat arrived back in July. Their impact? Already measurable. 🐄🌿

Proud to join IUCN - the world's largest environmental network. This milestone affirms our restoration work is part of a global movement uniting science, traditional wisdom, and ground action for lasting ecological change. #IUCN #EcosystemRestoration

The Wildfire Resilience Training - Ecosystem Restoration Communities The foundation supports the work of Ecosystem Restoration Communities around the world, in more that 60 independent locations.

Want to learn more? Join our FREE webinar with Matthew Trumm. Two time slots: Oct 30 (10am PST/6pm CET) or Nov 3 (6pm PST). Get your questions answered, meet the instructor, and see the full curriculum. Training starts Feb 2026.

Register: www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/learn/wildfi...

This isn't theory. It's proven strategies from people who've lived through megafires and rebuilt. From understanding fire ecosystems to mid-fire action to long-term land management. For landowners, practitioners, and anyone ready to take meaningful climate action.

The Wildfire Resilience Training brings together 16+ experts: permaculture designers, soil scientists, pyro-geographers, wildfire mappers, and natural builders. The approach? Reduce risk. Respond to heal land + community. Regenerate ecosystems. 6 modules starting Feb 2026.

Meet Matthew Trumm. In 2018, the Camp Fire destroyed Paradise, CA. He responded by founding the world's first mobile disaster response camp. Then another fire hit his family's land. For 7 years, he's been learning what actually works for wildfire prevention + post-fire recovery.

Living in a fire-prone area? Managing land that's now wildfire-threatened? Here's what most people don't know: you CAN fireproof landscapes. But it requires re-engineering ecosystems, not just defensible space. We've gathered the experts who know how. 🧵

6,557 acres under restoration so far. Universities are monitoring long-term success. Community ownership is growing. The model works when you match the solution to the specific damage, not just plant fast and hope. What other damaged landscapes need this approach?

But it's more than trees. It's jobs. It's permaculture training for local farmers. It's showing that restoration can be both ecological AND economic success. The coal industry took farmland and skills. This is bringing both back.

The No. 4 Farm nursery sits on reclaimed mine land from the Wolf Creek #4 coal mine. They're growing 1M+ native trees using these Champion genetics. Each seed gets species-specific treatment: stratification, scarification, whatever it needs to thrive.

Renew Appalachia is putting this into practice. Community members identify and collect seeds from Champion trees across Eastern Kentucky. White oaks (pressured by bourbon barrel production), crab apples (critical bat habitat)—species that matter locally.

Here's why it matters: A tree seed from 100 miles away might struggle in compacted mine soil. But a seed from a local Champion white oak that's survived 80 years in similar conditions? That genetic adaptation is the difference between 30% and 70%+ survival rates.

Enter 'Champion trees.' These are the survivors—older native trees that have adapted to harsh local conditions over decades. Their genetics hold the key: resilience to poor soil, local climate extremes, and the specific challenges of this landscape.

A century of coal mining left Appalachia's forests devastated. Compacted soil. Invasive ground cover. And here's the problem most people miss: standard reforestation methods are failing. Fast-growing trees can't survive these conditions. So what works? 🧵

We mourn the loss of Dr Jane Goodall—extraordinary conservationist and friend to our movement. Her wisdom and courage inspired generations to act for Earth. Her legacy will guide us in ecosystem restoration and nurturing hope. Condolences to her family and The Jane Goodall Institute.

🌵 BTW Music Festival: where regenerative systems meet electronic music. Nov 14-17, Puerto Peñasco.
Solar-powered Funktion-One sound + proceeds funding ecosystem restoration. Desert-to-sea bioregion as venue.
Do good, feel better. 🎵🌊

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