Biodiversity and agriculture in the Mediterranean region

Diego Juffe Bignoli, Bea Maas, Nigel Maxted, Randall Jimenez, Thomas Cherico Wanger, Joe Gosling, Jose Herrera, Christopher Kettle, Nicholas Macfarlane, Joana Magos Brehm, Pedro Rey, Manuel Toledo-Hernández, Mariana Yazbek, Faye Weaver, Mercedes Muñoz Cañas, Catherine Numa. (10/12/2025). Biodiversity and agriculture in the Mediterranean region. gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Abstract

his report, Biodiversity and agriculture in the Mediterranean region: A species conservation perspective, is designed to inform policymakers, conservation practitioners, and stakeholders across the Mediterranean region. Its purpose is to highlight the current challenges posed to biodiversity by intensive agricultural pressures, while identifying solutions and opportunities to reconcile biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture. It acknowledges that while certain unsustainable agricultural activities pose a key threat to species conservation in the Mediterranean, agricultural landscapes also provide habitat to numerous species - so considering agriculture as a threat requires a more nuanced approach, given its inherent linkages to nature.