Nature awareness studies have been conducted and published every two years since 2009 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).

The nature awareness study provides information on how the population perceives and experiences nature, supports its conservation, and how they assess the current issues of nature conservation policy. As a monitor of social trends, it provides empirically verifed data, which represent important foundations for nature conservation policy, public discourse and educational work.