Ecological restoration is a systematic project with high requirements for professional technology. There are relevant legislative norms at both the national and local levels to standardize and restrain ecological restoration behaviors. At present, a relatively mature legislative system has been formed. By combing the articles of law, it can be found that the responsibility for ecological restoration includes two aspects, direct ecological restoration and indirect ecological restoration. The former refers to the direct restoration of damaged ecosystem by taking artificial restoration measures, the latter refers to the functional restoration of the ecological environment through the operation of various facilities and equipment. Based on a brief analysis of the basic connotation of ecological restoration and the legal expression of responsibility for ecological restoration, the differences between the responsibility for ecological restoration and responsibility for restoring to original condition are compared from four aspects in this article, including the target legal interest, yardstick, liability form and actual effect. And this is why the responsibility for ecological restoration is called a new form of environmental responsibility. However, still at its starting stage, it also meets obstacles such as vague legal expression, imperfect legislation and incomplete safety guarding and so on. In the face of these obstacles and problems, people should be rational and objective in order to solve them. In sum, the realization of ecological restoration responsibility is to realize the legal arrangement of ecological restoration responsibility in the current legal system through legal practice. It is a process from what should be to what is. The way to realize the responsibility for ecological restoration is proposed from the aspects of clarifying the concept and character of it, perfecting the legal norms, improving the safeguard measures for the realization of it, and establishing a third party participation system. It is expected that this would be beneficial to the implementation of ecological restoration responsibility system.