Planning means addressing the changes that humans induce on the land, and thus the transformative processes that interact with biodiversity and can alter ecological connectivity. This concept has been extended and reversed toward nature by planning areas of high ecological value. Can the mere inclusion of biodiversity in a planning framework truly guarantee its preservation? Ecological connectivity is a necessary condition for maintaining biodiversity and, consequently, for ensuring the provision of essential services for human life, including in urban areas. Three core concepts are fundamental for striving toward sustainable territorial transformations: awareness of the role of biodiversity and ecological connectivity, including an understanding of their components such as ecosystem functions and services that contribute to human well-being, and the need to transfer this awareness from strategies into spatial and urban planning tools; consistency across planning levels and their effectiveness, especially when action is needed at the scale where pressures and threats to nature are most concretely manifested; share responsibility among local governments in managing ecological continuity at regional and interregional scales, since land-use changes can have effects far beyond where they occur. This work proposes a critical reflection on the need to renew and reorient planning toward the regulation of territorial transformations, moving beyond the approach of containing biodiversity and natural services merely for conservation purposes.