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What is the summary or conclusion of this pollination?

🌱 Can restoration be profitable without becoming extractive again?

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Ecosystem restoration needs funding to scale. But when profit enters, so does the risk of repeating extractive logics.

Where is the line?

🚦 Positions

🔴 Profit drives extraction
Economic pressure leads to shortcuts and ecological compromise.

🟡 Profit is necessary but risky
Viability is needed, but requires strong governance and safeguards.

🟢 Profit can enable regeneration
Well-designed models can align incentives with ecological outcomes.

❓ Your contribution

In your experience, when does restoration stop being regenerative and start becoming extractive?

🔍 Share with us:

  • Cases (projects, territories, companies)

  • Data or indicators (ecological, financial, social)

  • Models that worked — or failed

  • Trade-offs you’ve encountered

🔥 Bring real examples. Challenge assumptions. Help define what responsible restoration looks like.

Choose a position (🔴 🟡 🟢), share a concrete example from your context, and explain what happened, what worked (or failed), and why. Keep it simple and grounded:

  • What was the situation?

  • Who was involved?

  • What were the trade-offs?

  • What did you learn?

👉 Example: In Greece, a reforestation project funded through carbon credits focused on fast-growing species to meet targets quickly. While economically efficient, it reduced biodiversity and increased water stress, raising questions about long-term ecological impact.

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