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Worldwide, ecosystems are on the brink of collapse, species loss is on the rise, and most environmentalstressorscanbeattributedtohumanactivities. Weproposeanovelparadigmofconstructing an ecologically effective agent as a method of intervening in ecologically stressed environments. Designing biohybrid artefacts from living building blocks towards given functional objectives might enable us to bring ecosystems back to a stable region in their state space after they have already surpassed critical tipping points or are approaching them. Contingency measures against ecologicalcollapsethatrequireapplyingexternalforcestopushthesystembacktowardsitsoriginal states are not sustainable solutions, as they would only alleviate the symptoms but not the cause. A more sustainable solution can be shifting the tipping points of the systems themselves, a process …