SHEER

Soil Health Evaluation in Ecological Restoration in Savannah Environments

Coordinator: Università di Bologna

Scientific Officer: Marcello Di Bonito

Duration: 01/09/2022 - 30/03/2024

Research group: Marcello Di Bonito, Mauro De Feudis.

Ecological restorations focus on ‘repairing’ sites whose biological communities and ecosystems have been degraded or destroyed. The Centre for Ecosystem Restoration-Kenya (CERK) is undertaking such a restoration projects in savannah environments, in the Maasai Mara region, in northwest Kenya. The University of Bologna, together with two local (Kenyan) universities, Mount Kenya University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, are collaborating with CERK to build a ‘model’ restoration plan to potentially up-scale it to further areas.