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This report contains a restoration plan for degraded lands near the village of Kalamos on Kalamos island. The island is one of the Ionian islands off the west coast of Greece. There used to be deciduous evergreen forests that have now been reduced to small groves or individual trees. To restore this lost habitat and to rewild Kalamos, a restoration plan was developed. Restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Rewilding is one of the restoration approaches that promotes self-regulating ecosystems by bringing back species that drive dynamic processes in order for nature to manage itself. In this case, that species is the Valonia oak (Quercus ithaburensis).