The objective of EKBY is to promote the sustainable management of renewable natural resources in Greece and other areas of the Mediterranean basin and Europe.

EKBY generates knowledge, provides information, raises public awareness of the need for wise use of resources; it promotes environmental education and training, submits thoroughly documented proposals. It participates in European organisations and networks and in supranational initiatives for the conservation of nature. It supports policies, which are consistent with the principle of sustainability. It maintains updated archives of information on the natural environment and protected areas of Greece.

Its priorities include: assessment of changes to ecosystems – including the alterations resulting from non-sustainable human activity, and global climate change – and documentation of policies and measures to avert degradation of ecosystems; halting the loss of biodiversity; restoration/rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems; ensuring adequate quantity and suitable quality of fresh water for human use and ecosystems requirements; wide-ranging transfer of knowledge of functions and values of natural ecosystems, as well as the sustainable practices which must be introduced.
 

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Thursday, 02/02/2012

Workshop on the MedWet Inventory Tools

The MedWet Secretariat organized a workshop at EKBY on the 8th of December, with the aim to consolidate the important and long standing work done on a Mediterranean Wetland Inventory System. More...

 

Thursday, 02/02/2012

Presentation of LIFE PINUS as a case study for post-fire management of Southern Europe forests

LIFE PINUS has been included as a case study of post-fire management of Black pine forests in the book "Post-fire management and restoration of Southern European Forests", one of the major outcomes of the COST Action FP0701 “Post-Fire Forest Management in Southern Europe” that was published in November 2011. More...

 

Tuesday, 31/01/2012

International Symposium "Water and Wetlands in the Mediterranean. From Grado to Agadir: The next 20 years"

The Ramsar Convention, the MedWet Initiative and the High Commissariat for Water, Forests and Desertification Control of Morocco announce the organisation of the International Symposium on Water and Wetlands in the Mediterranean, to be held in the city of Agadir in Morocco from 6-8 February 2012. More...

 

Monday, 30/01/2012

February 2: World Wetlands Day 2012

"Wetlands and tourism" is the theme for World Wetlands Day for 2012 and the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention gives the opportunity for actions to raise awareness of wetland values, this time focusing on the recreational value and promoting an important service of wetlands, tourism. More...

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EKBY, 2010