Mexico has been a source of a large quantity of plants grown that represent the food supply of our country and of many other countries. Starting with this intellectual common property, the nation has developed a series of advances and projects of great value that form a point of departure and a solid base on which to lay the foundation of a national program for the study, conservation, and rational use of Mexico's biological resources. The conservation of biodiversity is of vital importance for the maintenance of the nation's hydric resources through its hydrological basins. Broad programs must be implemented for the development of trained personnel to in order to know, use, and conserve Mexico's biodiversity through a national effort of coordination and agreement. This requires having a biodiversity information center in Mexico, by incorporating border technology in the field like satellite images, for example, since no institution presently has the capacity to gather this information.
Biodiversity constitutes a patrimony of great economic, aesthetic, and cultural value for Mexico.
Its conservation is a fundamental condition for the permanence of life itself on earth which our own survival as a species is contingent upon. The consequences that possible climatic changes can bring about on biodiversity patterns in Mexico must be studied so that, in such case, they can be mitigated. As a result of human activity, extinction rates of species have increased between 1,000 and 10,000 times, with regard to naturally existing rates. This can erode biological groups that provide the necessary variance for future diversification processes. Not only must tropical zones and humid jungles, where over tow thousand five hundred usable products have been detected, be conserved, but arid zones and coastal, marine ecosystems which have a great biological diversity, must also be conserved.