The Red Natura 2000 is the fundamental pillar of preserving biodiversity in EU territory. It has its its origin in the habitats directive that establishes it as a coherent ecological network of protected areas, to house a representative sample of natural or seminatural habitats, in addition to habitats of the habites of species that are listed in annexed listed .
Loose Conservation or management instruments are the documents where the objectives and measures are collected
Euskadi Biodiversity Social Forum: Red Natura 2000
Donostia has the Meeting the Social Forum of Biodiversity of Euskadi 2024-25An annual participation room for the meeting and dialogue between the various agents involved in the preservation of nature. Promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Basque Government, it has the presence of fifty agents, including the various public administrations, universities, research centers, companies, social organizations and citizenship.
The opening of the forum was in charge of the vice minister of the environment, Josu Bilbaowho has stated in his speech that “those of us who meet on this forum have a common goal: the state of preserving habitats and the type of flora and animals in the wild; Everything and all, from the scope of the action that corresponds to us, we have a crucial role in this mission to the Triple global climate crisis, biodiversity and pollution together«.
“Between 2010 and 2021, Euskadi invested 203 million euros in the improvement of the Natura 2000 network, both habitats and species in danger,” said the Vice councilor. The Red Natura 2000 It is the most important instrument of the European Union for the preservation and protection of natural spaces and biodiversity. Currently, 23% of the territory of Euskadi is protected space.
During the day, issues such as collecting actions for the development of Conservation measures set for the places of the Natura 2000 networkPart of the monitoring and evaluation work of the State of preservation of species and habitats have been an exhibition about the quality of biodiversity data.
In this edition of the Forum, various experts related to the Basque government participated in the regional deputations and organisms such as URA – Basque water agency, the Aranzadi Science Society, or the world infrastructure of biodiversity information (GBIF), among other things.
Annual meeting
The Euskadi Biodiversity Social Forum is an annual meeting of the members of the Euskadi Nature Knowledge Network, founded by Wet 9/2021 of 25 November, about the preservation of the natural heritage of Euskadi. This network is formed by Organizations and people work together in collecting and using data and informationAnd when generating useful knowledge for the preservation of nature and the public interest, for the preparation of the provisional reports collected in the strategic documents and application regulations.
This forum is inserted within the Biodiversity strategy of the autonomous community of the Basque Country 2030That is the instrument that determines the priorities and obligations in the field of natural heritage with the horizon set in the year 2030.
Purpose 3 of this strategy, promotion of knowledge and nature culture, includes that the availability of spaces for participation is the key to generate communication, dialogue and knowledge, making it Meeting of agents from a wide range of sectors (Research, private and public companies, societies, educational organizations, etc.) and settles as action lines that have society and involve society about the importance of maintaining the natural environment and generating information and sharing knowledge.