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...
BfN-Schriften 684 - Restoration of European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in the German North Sea (RESTORE preliminary investigation) Publication BfN-Schriften • 2024 The testing and development project RESTORE, supported by the BfN with BMUV funding, is investigating methods for the restoration of the... more BfN-Schriften 684
NaBiV Heft 117: Threatened Biodiversity in the German North und Baltic Seas Publication Series "Nature Conservation and Biodiversity" • 2012 The seas of Germany’s coasts are under pressure from human induced pollution and, increasingly, from direct human activities in the area... more Order
Borkum Reef Ground NCA Page The Borkum Reef Ground nature conservation area (NCA) is the smallest of the three nature conservation areas in the German EEZ of the North... more
Marine plans and projects Page The North Sea and the Baltic Sea are increasingly subject to commercial exploitation for offshore wind farms and their grid connections,... more
Vilm (Rügen) Page The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) has a site on the Isle of Vilm (Insel Vilm), south of the Island of Rügen in northeastern... more
BfN Schriften 46 - Regulating Access and Benefit Sharing. Basic issues, legal instruments, policy proposals Publication BfN-Schriften • 2001 The Convention aims to regulate both the conservation of biological diversity and the economic use of its components, thus reconciling the... more
Peatland Strategies in Europe Publication Policy Briefs • 2020 Peatlands are wide spread across Europe with a concentration in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe (Ireland, United Kingdom, the... more
BfN Schriften 43 - Managing Risks to Biodiversity and the Environment on the High Sea, Including Tools Such as Marine Protected Areas - Scientific Requirements and Legal Aspects - Publication BfN-Schriften • 2001 The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation was happy to host an expert workshop on “Managing risks to biodiversity and the environment on... more
Challenges of Marine Nature Conservation Publication Viewpoint • 2017 The increasingly intensive use of our seas makes protecting the marine environment more and more important. This applies just as much in... more Viewpoint Challenges of Marine Nature Conservation (pdf, 2.83 MB)
International cooperation Page Nature does not recognise political borders. This applies to the distribution of plants and animals, and to many of the challenges faced in... more
