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...
Training materials and videos Page To complement our on-site or online training, we work with partners to develop training materials, educational films and guidelines that... more
Training materials on ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ Page BfN’s International Academy for Nature Conservation and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) have released a set of... more
Biodiversity and finance: Managing the double materiality Publication Leaflet • 2022 Economic activities are at the heart of biodiversity loss. At the same time, most economic sectors are heavily dependent on ecosystem... more Print copy
Privately Protected Areas Page To support capacity building on PPAs, BfN’s International Academy for Nature Conservation and the IUCN WCPA’s Specialist Group on... more
Sustainable Consumption for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Publication Leaflet • 2020 The goods and materials imported into Germany are highly diverse and come from numerous regions across the world. To structure the... more Sustainable Consumption for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (pdf, 10.38 MB)
Towards nature-friendly consumption. Biodiversity impacts and policy options for shrimp, soy, and palm oil Publication Leaflet • 2025 The high consumption of raw materials by the European Union (EU) is responsible for the loss of biodiversity across the globe, especially... more Towards nature-friendly consumption
Library Page Founded in 1906, the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) library is the biggest and oldest nature conservation library in Germany.... more
Sufficiency for biodiversity: Governing consumption within ecological limits Publication Policy Briefs • 2025 This policy brief underlines that sufficiency must become a core pillar of policy and economic decision-making, in order to achieve... more Policy Brief 02/2025
Publications Overview Here you will find our publications. There are brochures, journals, serial "BfN-Schriften" (up to 2022: "BfN-Skripten"), serial... more
