CITES Signed in 1973 and also known as the Washington Convention, the Convention on International Trade...
Natura 2000 To counter the ongoing decline of species in the wild and in natural habitats in the EU and to...
Federal Biological Diversity Programme Biodiversity loss has been progressing on a dramatic scale worldwide for many years. As species,...
International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm The International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm (INA) welcomes around 1,700...
Departmental research plan The research needs of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear...
Federal Biological Diversity Programme Biodiversity loss has been progressing on a dramatic scale worldwide for many years. As species,...
Germany’s Blue Belt Programme Germany’s waterways are to be restored to near-natural status. That is the aim of the Federal...
International Put together by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), this compilation on nature...
CITES Signed in 1973 and also known as the Washington Convention, the Convention on International Trade...
Natura 2000 To counter the ongoing decline of species in the wild and in natural habitats in the EU and to...
Our tasks Our responsibilities are laid down in the Act Establishing a Federal Agency for Nature Conservation...
International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm The International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm (INA) welcomes around 1,700...
Large-scale nature conservation projects Page The “chance.natur” programme promotes projects in areas considered of great national and international nature conservation value and as... more
Protected areas and habitats Page Many habitats have long been subject to increasing threat, not least due to intensification and increasing uniformity in agriculture. This... more
Training materials on ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ Page BfN’s International Academy for Nature Conservation and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) have released a set of... more
Privately Protected Areas Page To support capacity building on PPAs, BfN’s International Academy for Nature Conservation and the IUCN WCPA’s Specialist Group on... more
Nature restoration Page The restoration of nature is a key tool in nature conservation. Ecosystems that have been severely degraded, for example by intensive use,... more
BfN Schriften 261 - Second Sino-German Workshop on Biodiversity Conservation. Management of Ecosystems and Protected Areas: Facing Climate Change and Land Use Publication BfN-Schriften • 2009 The ‘Second Sino-German Workshop on Biodiversity Conservation’ was entitled ‘Management of Ecosystems and Protected Areas: Facing... more
Challenges of Marine Nature Conservation Publication Viewpoint • 2017 The increasingly intensive use of our seas makes protecting the marine environment more and more important. This applies just as much in... more Viewpoint Challenges of Marine Nature Conservation (pdf, 2.83 MB)
BfN Schriften 446 - Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas Publication BfN-Schriften • 2016 Through this, we hope to further promote the integration of research findings and implementation experiences of nature-based solutions for... more
BfN Schriften 153 - Report of the International Workshop “Opportunities of EU Agricultural Policy Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Rural Development in Protected Areas of the New Member States” Publication BfN-Schriften • 2005 The aim of the international workshop „Opportunities of EU Agricultural Policy Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated... more
Genetic engineering, nature conservation and biological diversity: Boundaries of design Publication Viewpoint • 2022 In this paper, Germany’s Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) presents its position on an... more Genetic engineering, nature conservation and biological diversity (pdf, 3.43 MB)
