Jordan enjoys a relatively large biodiversity compared to the geographical area. Its unique location in the middle of three main continents: Asia, Europe and Africa helped to enrich this biodiversity. This feature contributed to giving the region the ability to contain four vital geographic regions, namely: the Mediterranean region, the Arabian desert region, the Sudanese region, and the Iranian-Turanian region. This difference in the biogeographical regions led to the presence of a large number of animal and plant species of different origins. Jordan is also part of the Fertile Crescent region, which is home to many plant genetic parents.
Most of the threats facing the ecosystems in Jordan result from causes related to human and developmental activities, especially since the beginning of the last century. These risks are summarized in land degradation, urban sprawl, directing investments towards areas rich in biodiversity, overgrazing, logging, poaching and fires. Climate changes and successive years of drought are also considered challenges that affect the safety, vitality and efficiency of ecosystems and the services and products they provide to humans and animals.
Believing in the garden's national responsibilities towards environmental systems as a national institution specialized in preserving the local indigenous plants, the garden has developed (a special section for reviving the land) that focuses on environmental rehabilitation activities for habitats at the level of Jordan, as a complement to the activities of the garden specialized in preserving and documenting the local indigenous Jordanian plants. Where it seeks The garden aims to restore environmental systems to their natural balanced state as much as possible, or to limit their deterioration.
The park adopts a comprehensive approach to environmental restoration that focuses on a deep understanding of the environmental and climatic conditions, the social and economic realities of the local community, and the legal reality of landscapes.
or natural spaces
(Landscape) targeted, in addition to the study of biological and physical elements and the use of local indigenous plants in the processes of environmental restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems to ensure the preservation of biomass and its geographical interdependence and consistency with natural vital systems. The park also focuses on working with the local community and ensuring the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources, respecting their interests of paramount importance, including their developmental and economic needs, full respect for their human rights and their traditional rights to own and use land and benefit from it, in addition to developing communication mechanisms as part of A fair governance system to facilitate the exchange of information and views.
Within the framework of environmental restoration, the park contributes to supporting national contributions and commitments related to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), land degradation neutralization goals under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and national biodiversity strategies and action plans under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). , and other strategies for landscape restoration, nature-based solutions, and voluntary schemes to reduce carbon emissions, including the New York Declaration on Forests, the Bonn Challenge, and the KEW Declaration.
The park includes many national expertise specialized in implementing ecosystem restoration activities and services in various fields. The park will also provide this section with a group of expertise specialized in water, soil, geographic information systems, and others, in order to work with a comprehensive and integrated methodology to support official and informal national efforts in the field of restoring environmental systems. and its services
and facilitating the exchange of information.