The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is engaged in an interesting project in the Caribbean and South America to combat drought, soil degradation and desertification. The program is the first sub-regional program of its kind, depending upon young people trained in reforestation and sustainable development techniques carrying out a program of environmental rehabilitation. The project is the beginning of the sort of large-scale ecological restoration efforts that Ecological Internet has long advocated. Humanity has surpassed the Earth's carrying-capacity, having destroyed more ecosystems than can be lost and the Earth's life-support systems still function in the long-term. We must not only protect all remaining large natural habitats, but also commence an age of ecological restoration based upon protecting water and other landscape ecological patterns and processes.