Starting in 2009, it has been commissioned and published every two years by the Federal Ministry for the Environ- ment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).

The survey provides answers to the following questions: What does the population understand by ‘nature’? Who commits to the cause, and how? And how is nature conservation actually rated in Germany – as a major political agenda serving to safeguard our own future, as a tedious curtailment of our personal freedom of decision, or as something that simply goes unnoticed? What are the nature topics that interest people and what can nature conservation learn from this?