 Hello, my name is Ashley and I work for Ecosystem Restoration Camps and we are just about to start the third round of our very popular Ecosystem Restoration Design online course which is a course that will teach you how to restore degraded land and this video specifically is five things that will inspire you to take the course, five good reasons why you should take this course and the first reason is if you are interested in developing or starting a career in Ecosystem Restoration this course is a really great introduction for you to do that because it gives you an introduction to many different types of Ecosystem Restoration that you can learn about and then decide okay I'm interested in this specific field and then you can dive in deeper. It's a perfect thing to take, a perfect course to take after a PDC for instance permaculture design certificate so yeah if you're looking to develop a career in this field this is a really great introductory course for that. The second reason is that you will be added into and create a really powerful network of other people around the world who are taking this course and starting their journey towards becoming restoration practitioners themselves you'll be introduced to 19 Ecosystem Restoration practitioners that are very experienced and very networked as well so access to them and the other students that you're with will create a powerful alumni that you can tap into for future work opportunities and projects. The third reason is that this course is incredibly easy to access and use it is all run through an online platform where there are videos you can watch each week as well as being guided by a facilitator who will be your point person to answer any questions that you have there are Q&As with the teachers every week where you get the chance to ask them your questions directly it's a very well laid-down easy to use platform. I've already spoken a little bit about the experts that are part of this course such a wide variety of different people who are all teaching about subjects that they're very very experienced in and have implemented themselves so for instance you'll learn about coral reefs with two practitioners that have worked to restore coral reefs all over the world and all of the other subjects have highly experienced teachers too that you'll get to interact with and learn from and the last great reason to take this course is that you will gain so much knowledge and skills that you'll be able to take out into the world to restore a piece of land or many pieces of land that are degraded the fifth module of this course which is the practical module gives you the chance to work in a team with other people other students to create a restoration plan an implementation plan and a business plan that will empower you to go out and restore a piece of land or an ecosystem that you love or that you know needs support and restoration so yeah those are the five great reasons for me why you should take this course it's already been taken by hundreds of people around the world so many around 80 restoration projects have been created as a result of this course and yeah I obviously am biased because I created it but it is amazing and it starts next week but you have a couple more weeks to register so yeah that's all I have to say thanks very much