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...
Tourism and sport Page Tourism and nature-based sports are reliant on nature and an environment that are diverse and ideally intact. But they can also put... more
BfN Schriften 95 - Sustainable Tourism and European Policies: The European Agenda 21 for Tourism - Report of the NGO-Workshop, Isle of Vilm, 24th -26th of March 2003 Publication BfN-Schriften • 2003 From March 23-26, 2003 the Workshop “Sustainable tourism development and European policies” convened 24 participants representing 15... more
Natura 2000 – Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Publication Leaflet • 2009 This brochure will inform tourism, outdoor recreation and sport representatives about the Natura 2000 concept and at the same time explain... more
BfN Schriften 77 - Report of the International Workshop for CEE Countries. “Tourism in Mountain Areas and the Convention on Biological Diversity" Publication BfN-Schriften • 2003 In the year 2002, the International Year of Ecotourism and International Year of Mountains, October 1st- 5th, 29 participants from 9... more
BfN Schriften 16 - International Workshop: Case Studies on Sustainable Tourism and Biological Diversity Publication BfN-Schriften • 2000 After the 4th Meeting of SBSTTA, and responding to the Recommendations, the German Federal Government decided to organize a workshop on... more
BfN Schriften 60 - Biodiversity and Tourism in the Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity: The Case of the Tayrona National Park, Colombia Publication BfN-Schriften • 2002 This document is the result of a workshop with experts and participants from different institutions to analyse the development of tourism... more
BfN Schriften 70 - Biodiversity and Tourism in the Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Case of the natural and cultural heritage of Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic Publication BfN-Schriften • 2002 In May 2000, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) accepted “the invitation to participate in... more
BfN Schriften 110 - “Sustainable Tourism Development in European Protected Areas”: Networking Meeting of the European Charter Parks 15.-18.3.2003, Vilm, Germany Publication BfN-Schriften • 2004 The workshop focused on the development of the Charter and how to improve it as well as on a number of areas of interest to the parks -... more
BfN-Schriften 696 - Economic analysis of visitation in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. International standards of economic analysis and their implementation in the case of Germany Publication BfN-Schriften • 2024 This paper combines international key principles and definitions of the most relevant eco-nomic terms and approaches of economic analysis... more BfN-Schriften 696
Caves not open to the public Profile Natura 2000 Lebensraum Caves should primarily be notified based on their relevance for fauna, e.g. as bat roosts. For cartographic depiction it is normally... more
