Message from ECNC’s President and Executive Director
The Annual report now in your hands or on your computer screen differs from those of previous years: it is more compact and, hopefully, more incisive. Although our past annual reports were well received, we felt that it was time to reach out to a wider range of target groups. And that, in a nutshell, was also a priority for ECNC during 2006. We are striving to build a bridge between biodiversity interests and wider interests of society and economy. Actually, we feel that the pillars of the bridge are already in place, because without ecology there would be no economy or people. And economy can assist people and nature to improve living conditions. This brings us to ECNC’s raison d’être: we are the European Biodiversity Expertise Centre for sustainable development. Biodiversity for sustainable development is our focus and our motivation. To read further, download the report here: |