Registry of Biodiversity Institutions, Collections and Databases: Institution

Overall information

Goals

• a) Encourage the study of wild flora and fauna, as well as their habitats, as the main tool for the knowledge and defense of our BIODIVERSITY.
• b) Create a social awareness of the importance of the CONSERVATION of nature.
• c) Perform, organize and / or promote activities aimed at knowing our natural environment, always under the strictest ethical standards of respect for NATURE, respect that will be promoted both inside and outside the Association.
• d) Collaborate with Scientific Entities, Ecological and Conservation Groups, Public Administrations, Educational Centers and Associations related to nature, either sharing data, exchanging experiences or reporting aggressions to the natural environment.
• e) Use photography as a method of approaching the environment, being totally prohibited to capture any animal or pull out any type of plant.
• f) Contribute to the photos and their corresponding quotations derived from our photographic activities to websites that facilitate the identification, determination, organization and dissemination of the results.
• g) Attempt to repair and / or mitigate the repercussions of human activities on the environment.

Strengths

• a) Organize and / or promote conferences, exhibitions, courses, seminars, field trips and other activities that help to understand and / or disseminate knowledge of the natural environment and the defense of biodiversity.
• b) Create and maintain a website that is the communication axis both internally and externally, with a calendar of activities and a system for disseminating the results derived from the activities carried out.
• c) Develop an Ethics Committee to ensure the good name of the Association and the correct behavior of the associates.

Collections and databases hosted

• Biodiversidad Virtual