Aquatic Biodiversity

Aquatic biodiversity is both a marker of the quality of our environment and our water resources, and a contributor to its good ecological, physical and physico-chemical status. It encompasses all plant and animal species that help to maintain a stable but fragile ecosystem.

Aquatic biodiversity plays an important role in the water cycle.

Biodiversity is essential to resource management, and biodiversity generally requires aquatic environments.

As such, it contributes to the “ecosystem services” that support our own existence, and which we are increasingly incorporating into our resource management efforts and our development policies, especially through the use of nature-based solutions.

Aquatic Environment Management and Flood Prevention (GEMAPI), a responsibility entrusted to local authorities, makes an important contribution to efforts to maintaining aquatic biodiversity and building the associated accountability.