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...
The reintroduction of the European flat oyster Publication Leaflet • 2022 The leaflet on the reintroduction of the European flat oyster explains why European flat oysters are ecologically important and in the... more The Reintroduction of the European Flat Oyster (pdf, 5.67 MB)
Landscape planning - the basis for sustainable landscape development Publication Leaflet • 2012 The brochure focuses on the innovations regarding the tasks and contents of landscape planning regulated nationwide by the Federal Nature... more Order brochure Landscape planning (pdf, 3.94 MB)
Status Report on Floodplains 2021 – Floodplains in Germany Publication Leaflet • 2021 12 years after the first German status report on floodplains was published a second nationwide study was carried out revising the... more Order Status Report on Floodplains 2021 - Floodplains in Germany (pdf, 14.14 MB)
Nature Awareness Study 2019 Publication Leaflet • 2020 The present study is a representative population survey on nature awareness in Germany. The focus of the 2019 Nature Awareness Study is... more Nature Awareness Study 2019 (pdf, 1.95 MB)
Nature Awareness Study 2017 Publication Leaflet • 2018 The study is based on a nationwide represen-tative survey on nature awareness in Germany. The guiding topic of the 2017 Nature Awareness... more Nature Awareness Study 2017 (pdf, 1.53 MB)
Nature Awareness Study 2015 Publication Leaflet • 2016 The ‘2015 Nature Awareness Study’ is a representative population survey on how the German people view nature and biodiversity. The... more Nature Awareness Study 2015 (pdf, 5.74 MB)
Nature Awareness Study 2013 Publication Leaflet • 2014 This 2013 Nature Awareness Study is based on a representative population survey on how the Germans view nature and biological diversity. ... more Nature Awarness Study 2013 (pdf, 3.84 MB)
Nature Awareness Study 2011 Publication Leaflet • 2012 This brochure presents the results of the representative 2011 population survey on nature awareness in Germany. ‘Nature awareness’ is... more Nature Awareness Study 2011 (pdf, 2.48 MB)
The International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm Publication Leaflet • 2010 Brochure International Academy for Nature Conservation (pdf, 2.25 MB)
Sustaining Natural Systems for Future Generations Publication Leaflet • 2016 Action for global nature conservation takes on various forms at the BfN. The BfN initiates and supports a broad range of bilateral and... more Sustaining Natural Systems for Future Generations (pdf, 1.83 MB)
