This university-based foundation was created in 1996 on the initiative of the Universities Complutense, Autónoma de Madrid and Alcalá and of a number of professors grouped around the figure of Fernando González Bernáldez and the Ecology Departments of these universities.

The aim of the foundation is to compile, disseminate and develop the teachings of Professor Fernando González Bernáldez, in his threefold commitment to ecological research, environmental education and the preservation of nature, from the basis of the utmost scientific rigour.