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Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz – BfN) is the German government’s scientific authority with responsibility for national and international nature conservation. BfN is one of the government’s departmental research agencies and reports to the German Environment Ministry (BMUB).
The Agency provides the German Environment Ministry with professional and scientific assistance in all nature conservation and landscape management issues and in international cooperation activities. BfN furthers its objectives by carrying out related scientific research and is also in charge of a number of funding programmes.
BfN additionally performs important enforcement work under international agreements on species conservation and nature conservation, the Antarctic Treaty and the German Genetic Engineering Act.
Activities
- Research
- Funding
Coordinated projects
Financed funding programmes
Involved in research projects
- Assessment of forest certification systems with reference to the government procurement requirements for timber and timber products
- Collaborative project: Ecological diversity in orchards. Subproject: Testing and implementing various measures to promote biodiversity in organically grown fruit farms in northern Germany
- Preparation, conduction and evaluation of the German National Forest Inventory as well as processing of the results.
- Risk assessment and opinion on applications for placing on the market of GMOS and products derived from GMOs
Contact
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
(BfN)
Konstantinstr. 110
53179 Bonn
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: 0228 8491-0
Fax: 0228 8491-9999
Email: info(@)bfn.de
