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Reply to: Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people

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The Original Article was published on 13 July 2022

replying to: F. Fleischman et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04733-x (2022)

It is essential to properly include the rights, preferences, participation and knowledge of people locally affected by restoration in its planning and implementation. Not only is this an ethical imperative, but it is also central to maximizing the social benefits of restoration, minimizing its potential harms and increasing its long-term sustainability and success. We stressed this in our original paper1 and reinforce this message here in response to the Matters Arising by Fleischman et al.2.

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  1. Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Alvaro Iribarrem, Carlos Leandro Cordeiro, Renato Crouzeilles, Catarina Jakovac, André Braga Junqueira, Eduardo Lacerda & Agnieszka E. Latawiec

  2. International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Alvaro Iribarrem, Carlos Leandro Cordeiro, Renato Crouzeilles, Catarina Jakovac, André Braga Junqueira, Eduardo Lacerda, Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Robin L. Chazdon & Carlos Alberto de Mattos Scaramuzza

  3. Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Renato Crouzeilles & Fabio R. Scarano

  4. Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg

  5. School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Hawthorne L. Beyer

  6. Agricultural Science Center, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Catarina Jakovac

  7. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    André Braga Junqueira

  8. Department of Geography, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil

    Eduardo Lacerda

  9. Department of Production Engineering, Logistics and Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Kraków, Poland

    Agnieszka E. Latawiec

  10. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Agnieszka E. Latawiec

  11. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Andrew Balmford, Stuart H. M. Butchart & Paul F. Donald

  12. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland

    Thomas M. Brooks

  13. World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), University of The Philippines, Los Baños, The Philippines

    Thomas M. Brooks

  14. Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Thomas M. Brooks

  15. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK

    Stuart H. M. Butchart & Paul F. Donald

  16. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Robin L. Chazdon

  17. World Resources Institute, Global Restoration Initiative, Washington, DC, USA

    Robin L. Chazdon

  18. Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

    Robin L. Chazdon

  19. Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Karl-Heinz Erb & Christoph Plutzar

  20. Department of Forest Sciences, ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

    Pedro Brancalion

  21. RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Edinburgh, UK

    Graeme Buchanan & Paul F. Donald

  22. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    David Cooper

  23. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

    Sandra Díaz

  24. United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK

    Valerie Kapos & Lera Miles

  25. Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

    David Leclère, Michael Obersteiner & Piero Visconti

  26. Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christoph Plutzar

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Strassburg, B.B.N., Iribarrem, A., Beyer, H.L. et al. Reply to: Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people. Nature 607, E7–E9 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04734-w

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