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The following NGOs, academic institutions, and government agencies have adopted the SER Primer's definition of ecological restoration: Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

• Auckland Regional Council
• Bank of Natural Capital (Part of the TEEB Study)
• British Columbia Ministry of Environment
• Center for International Forestry Research
• Center for Invasive Plant Management
• Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Cooper Ecological Monitoring, Inc.
• DCNR Invasive Exotic Plant Tutorial for Natural Land Managers
• Evergreen
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Food and Agriculture Organization: Forest Landscape Restoration
• Galiano Conservancy Association
• Global Environment Facility (GEF): Coral Reef Restoration
• Grand Canyon Trust
• Great River Greening
• Iowa State University Ecological Restoration Interest Group
• Illinois Natural History Survey Library
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature
• Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
• Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
• Marianist Environmental Education Center
• Mississippi Society of American Foresters
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• National Parks Service, Department of the Interior
• Nature Conservation Foundation India
• New Zealand Department of Conservation
• North Carolina State University
• Northern Arizona University
• Parks Canada: Principles and Guidelines for Ecological Restoration
• The Cranfield Centre for Ecological Restoration, Cranfield University
• The Nature Conservancy
• UC Irvine
• University of Alberta
• University of Florida’s School of Natural Resources & Environment
• UN Water Policy Brief
• US Bureau of Land Management            
• USDA Forest Service: A Framework for Restoring and Maintaining Natural Forests and Grasslands
• US Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Risk Assessment            
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, River Corridor and Wetland Restoration
• US Geological Survey