Activities/Thematic Focus

• Developing and implementing resources and strategies for species conservation at national and international level
• Monitoring and assessing the conservation status of species, ecological communities, habitats and landscapes, and analysing sources of threat
• Strategies and programmes for conservation-ased environment monitoring and success measurement
• Issues relating to landscape ecology and habitat protection; planning of habitat protection programmes, development of a habitat network, designation of priority nature conservation sites and implementation of national grant funding programmes on protected areas
• Integration of nature conservation concerns into land uses such as farming, forestry, use of water resources, recreation, transport, tourism and sport with the aim of guiding them along sustainable lines
• Developing and evaluating landscape plans, impact mitigation rules under nature conservation law and other similar policy instruments, including promoting use of renewables and sustainable energy and resource extraction
• Involved in proceedings under the German Genetic Engineering Act and Federal Waterways Act
• National implementation and advancement at international level of the Convention on Biological Diversity
• Nature conservation in national and international marine and coastal habitats
• Running the international nature conservation academy