The maintenance of biodiversity, within a philosophy of sustainable development, should conserve the complex and changing patterns of ecosystems, thus contributing to defend habitats and therefore species and their diversity, while at the same time enriching human quality of life. In 1992, the Basque Government elaborated a 1:25000-scale vegetation map, according to which, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country it is possible to identify up to 25 types of forests, 13 types of shrubbery and 10 herbaceous formations, apart from the specific vegetation of singular ecosystems like wetlands, taluses, rocky areas, cliffs and coastal sandy areas, etc.

Forests

Wetlands

Sandy Areas