The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of the Environment has joined the 2010 Countdown. This initiative aims to ensure that all European governments as well as members of civil society at all levels take the necessary actions to halt biodiversity loss by 2010.

The main objective of the Biodiversity Foundation is the conservation of nature, hence its decision to support this global alliance to carry out this end. By supporting the 2010 Countdown, this entity complies with the principles of participation and transparency that govern its activities, since it invites all social sectors to collaborate, collecting their contributions.

Adherence to the 2010 Countdown commits the Biodiversity Foundation to support the decisions taken by governments, as well as to disseminate the situation and values of biodiversity and the 2010 Countdown. To this end, the Secretariat of the Countdown 2010 develops communication tools to help the members of this initiative in this area and to contribute their ideas and needs to this process.

Through its adhesion to this initiative, the Biodiversity Foundation wants to be an example for all those entities whose commitment is to conserve nature, and invite them to join this global project.

The goal of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 is at the heart of many international agreements. The most recent was the eighth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held from 20 to 31 March in Curitiba, Brazil, and in which nearly 200 countries participated. This initiative started in Europe during the Gothenburg Summit in 2001, where the Heads of State of the European Union committed, among other things, to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010 and to make this issue a central objective of the European Strategy for Sustainable Development.

The Ministry of the Environment supports this initiative and is also supported by the Council of Ministers of the Environment of the European Union, which considers it a key tool to meet environmental commitments.