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“Biodiversity conservation has been a worldwide issue in government agendas at least since the United Nations’ Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, where world leaders agreed on a common strategy for “sustainable development”. The key pact achieved at the Summit resulted in the Convention on Biological Diversity, a document which stresses conservation of biological diversity as a global goal, as well as its sustainable use and the sharing of benefits arising from the exploration of genetic resources (United Nations 1993). The European Community has ever since been looking to be in the lead of friendly biodiversity policy-making. Examples of such concern are the Natura 2000 Network of protected areas, LIFE projects and management plans as financial instruments supporting nature conservation projects.