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.
In
September 30 of 2022, thirty
one years have been
completed since 1991, that EKBY was founded by the
Goulandris Natural History Museum, after a proposal of
the European Commission and of the Greek Ministry for
the Environment.
