International Nature Conservation

Head:

Dr. Bettina Hedden-Dunkhorst

Deputy:

Barbara Engels

Postal

Konstantinstr. 110

address:

53179 Bonn, Germany

Tel.

+49 (0)228 8491-1760 (Dr. Hedden-Dunkhorst)

+49 (0)228 8491-1711 (secretary’s office)

Fax:

+49 (0)228 8491-1709

Activities/Thematic Focus

Support in general, fundamental and project-related issues concerned with international cooperation in nature conservation
Coordinating international issues relating to nature and landscape conservation and sustainable resource use
Implementing international, multilateral and bilateral accords
Ongoing development of strategies for international cooperation in nature conservation (among other things with regard to crisis prevention and combating poverty)
Representing BfN in international cooperation involving national agencies, the German states (Länder) and national and international organisations (GIZ, KfW, WWF, IUCN, UNEP, UNESCO etc.)
Carrying out bilateral and multilateral international nature conservation cooperation projects
Coordination of BfN's international nature conservation activities

Europe
Russia, Ukraine, adjacent countries of the Green Belt (25 nations), Memel delta (Lithuania), Muran river basin (Slovakia ), primeval beech forests (Slovakia, Ukraine), wetland system Polesia and adjoining areas (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia)
Asia
China, Turkmenistan, India, Altai range (Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia), Daurian steppe (Russia, Mongolia)
Africa
Lake Tana and Ethiopian Highlands (Ethiopia), transboundary areas in Sub-Saharan Africa