Ekoetxea Urdaibai
The Basque Biodiversity Centre was created with the fundamental objective of promoting the dissemination of nature and biodiversity in the Basque Autonomous Community, as well as for the need to give value to biodiversity; or, what is the same, to inform of the benefits that biodiversity brings to human beings and what we lose when species become extinct.
It is located in Busturia (Biscay), in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. This is one of the areas in the Basque Country with the largest number of ecosystems; which also means that there is greater biodiversity.
The territory of Urdaibai was declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1984 and, five years later, the Basque Government approved Law 5/1989 on the Protection and Ordering of said space, in order to protect and promote the recovery of the ecosystems for their natural and scientific interest and for environmental education. We thus aim to establish a model for territorial development that allows us to conserve natural and cultural values in a way that is compatible with economic and social development.