Welcome to the English webpages of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) is the central scientific authority of the German federal government for both national and international nature conservation.
Gland, June 04 2019 Actors involved in the initiation of cross-border protected areas can now download training documents and adapt them for their own workshops. The materials are intended to support actors in the planning, initiation and institutionalisation of such areas. more
On 24 April 2019, Patricia Zurita, CEO of BirdLife International, and Beate Jessel, President of the BfN, met in Bonn at the BfN premises and agreed to strengthen their collaboration.
The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) initiated the “Expert Meeting on Ecosystem Valuation in the context of Natural Capital Accounting”, which took place in April 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The conference proceedings are out now. The aim of the meeting was to contribute to the achievements to map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services, including economic valuation and the integration into accounting and reporting systems. It was organized in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Bonn, 8th March 2019: A high-ranking delegation under the leadership of the Mongolian Minister for the Environment visits the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with the aim to discuss nature conservation issues. Thereby, "sustainable protected area management" is in the focus. The visitors are particularly interested in strategies and approaches to sustainable financing as well as the development of sustainable tourism and nature-friendly forest management in protected areas.
Newly published: BfN-Skript on Marine Ecosystem Services
The concept of ecosystem services bears the potential to better integrate marine nature conservation objectives in processes and decisions of public policy making. During an international workshop on marine ecosystem services in July 2018, participants from different countries and various disciplines seized the opportunity to present research results, exchange practical experiences and critically discuss theoretical and ethical foundations of the general concept.
European genetic engineering law applies to new genome editing techniques
Are plants created with the help of new genome editing methods such as CRISPR/Cas to be regarded as genetically modified organisms? Are they covered by European genetic engineering law? The European Court of Justice ruled on these questions on 25th of July 2018: Organisms obtained by new genetic engineering are in principle subject to the European genetic engineering law.
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