Activities/Thematic Focus

• Ongoing development of conservation area policy instruments and approaches
• Large-scale conservation areas (national parks, biosphere reserves and nature parks)
• Other protected areas (nature conservation areas and landscape protection areas) under the German Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG)
• Specially designated areas (Council of Europe Diploma sites, European reserves and biogenetic reserves)
• Support for current and completed large-scale conservation projects
• Protected area archives and databases
• Conservation issues relating to government property
• Office of the BfN centre of expertise on large-scale conservation areas