“A Pro-Biodiversity Business (PBB) is dependent on biodiversity for its core business and contributes to biodiversity conservation through that core business.” - Dickson et al (2007)

A PBB pays attention to the conservation of biodiversity through the long-term sustainable use of biological resources. Besides, it has positive commercial returns on investments, and social, employment and cohesion benefits arising from the use of biological resources. Basically, a PBB strives to generate positive financial and biodiversity returns. Companies, active in those sectors that have the most significant impact on biodiversity, are mostly micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. The latter constitute over 99% of all economic activity in the EU25 and even more so in the EECCA (Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia) countries.

• Forestry, Hungary

Case studies provided by CREM, a specialised company for sustainable development:

• Agriculture, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
• Agriculture, Czech Republic
• Agriculture, Moldova
• Agriculture and Ecotourism, Romania
• Agriculture, Ecotourism, Fisheries, Non-Timber Forest Products, Romania
• Agriculture and Tourism, Bulgaria
• Agriculture and Tourism, Romania
• Biofuels, Romania and Ukraine
• Ecotourism, Romania
• Fishery, Croatia and Slovenia
• Fishery, South-East Europe
• Fishery, Greece
• Fishery, Hungary
• Fishery, Ukraine

For more information about Pro-Biodiversity Businesses visit the following websites:

• www.fundatia-adept.org
• www.smeforbiodiversity.eu
• www.smeforbiodiversity-steppes.com