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...
Transfer Projects Page As part of the Klaus Toepfer Fellowship, participants develop a project with relevance to the work of their home institution. Throughout... more
BfN Schriften 203 - Population Dynamics and Sustainable Harvesting of the Medicinal Plant Harpagophytum procumbens in Namibia. Results of the R+D Project 800 86 005 Publication BfN-Schriften • 2007 The need for this study to be undertaken arose because of a dramatic increase in export figures during 1998 and 1999 and corresponding... more Skript203 (pdf, 3.23 MB)
Planning and assessment Page Balancing the interests of socially acceptable land use with those of nature and landscape conservation is addressed by the goals of nature... more
Health Page Although not all trends make sense or benefit people, this is one that does: Staying healthy or improving health with the help of nature is... more
Germany’s Blue Belt Programme Page Germany’s waterways are to be restored to near-natural status. That is the aim of the Federal Government’s Blue Belt Programme (Blaues... more
BfN Schriften 168 - The ecosystem approach in forest biosphere reserves: results from three case studies Publication BfN-Schriften • 2006 The present report is a summary of the results of a study which was completed on behalf of the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) by a number... more Skript168 (pdf, 599.15 KB)
BfN Schriften 195 - International Standard for Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP) Publication BfN-Schriften • 2007 The ISSC-MAP is designed to help those involved in the harvest, management, trade, manufacture, and sale of wild-collected medicinal and... more Skript195 (pdf, 390.02 KB)
Development of a modular training package on Other Effective Area Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) Projekt The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requests so-called "other effective area-based conservation measures" (OECMs) to be counted... more
Capacity building for IPBES: Survey shows needs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia News 20.01.2021 • Putbus/Insel Vilm • News The Institute for Biodiversity Network (ibn) presented the results of a survey in January that show which capacities need to be developed... more
International Workshop on Resource Inventory Guidelines Event Workshop International Academy for Naure Conservation • Date, time20.10.2021 (Wed) 17:00 – 22.10.2021 (Fri) 14:00 The workshop is part of a project in which a methodology and guidance tools for resource assessment methods for wild-harvested plants is... more
