🌱 Can restoration be profitable without becoming extractive again?

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.