The association of the German sporting goods industry, BSI, is cooperating with the Global Nature Fund (GFN), an international foundation for the environment and nature, in the framework of the European Business and Biodiversity Campaign, EBBC. The aim of the cooperation is to extend the consciousness of the importance of biological diversity as life necessity for mankind to companies of the German sporting goods industry and to underline the fact that the biological diversity is the natural capital of our economy. Experts of the EBBC campaign developed a biodiversity check for companies, designed after the environmental management systems EMAS III and ISO 14.001. Several companies from diverse industries have already implemented the biodiversity check successfully.