The issue of biodiversity in the new Rural Development Programme (RDP) for the years 2014-2020

One of the human expansions on Earth there is substantial increase of species extinction rate. And this process leads to significant reduction in biodiversity. However, its protection is necessary for the most elementary reasons: – to maintain mechanisms of living nature action, – to maintain nature’s capacity to survive the environment changes; – to prevent the loss of natural values, not yet identified and used, which may constitute the basis for development and guarantee for survival of future generations. The notion of biodiversity was defined by the Convention on biodiversity adopted at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (so called “Earth Summit”) in Rio de Janeiro, 5th June 1992. Both the Republic of Poland and the European Union is the Signatory of this Convention. Therefore, the obligations imposed on the Convention signatories shall be reflected both in the national and the European Union legislation. Undoubtedly, the legal regulations, both of the Community and the national ones concerning support for rural development include solutions purposed to protect biodiversity. It also appears that these solutions intend to approach the coherent system to support biodiversity.Uniwersytet Śląski w KatowicachL. Burke, K. Reytar, M. Spalding, A. Perry, Raport „Reefs at Risk Revisted”, Washington DC, 2011.J. Ciechanowicz-McLean, Ochrona przyrody w prawie międzynarodowym, [w:] J. Ciechanowicz-McLean (red.), Polskie prawo ochrony przyrody, Warszawa 2006.A. Kalinowska, Konwencja o różnorodności biologicznej, „Środowisko” 2010, nr 12 (420).S. Kozłowski, Przyszłość ekorozwoju, Lublin 2007.Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis., Washington, DC.N. S. Sodhi, P. Ehrlich, Conservation biology for all, New York 2010.M. Soule, G. Orians, Conservation biology. Research priorities for the next decade, society for conservation biology, Washington 2001.165-17