Thomas Crowther is a professor of global ecology and founding chair of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. He is the president of the Branch Institute, an international network of research groups in leading universities across 6 countries, focussed on understanding the linkages between global biodiversity and human wellbeing. In 2020, he founded Restor.eco, an online platform that supports hundreds of thousands of community-led nature initiatives to access data and sustainable financing. In 2022 the WEF recognized Crowther as a Young Global Leader for his work on global biodiversity protection.
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