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Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Index Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

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. [1]

16 relations: Antarctic Treaty System, Biodiversity, Bonn, CITES, Climate change, Conservation (ethic), Convention on Biological Diversity, Ecosystem services, Land management, Leipzig, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Natura 2000, Natural regions of Germany, Politics of Germany, Renewable energy, Vilm.

Antarctic Treaty System

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bonn

The Federal City of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000.

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CITES

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Conservation (ethic)

Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection.

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Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.

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Ecosystem services

Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems.

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Land management

Land management is the process of managing the use and development (in both urban and rural settings) of land resources.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific programme, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.

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Natura 2000

Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union.

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Natural regions of Germany

This division of Germany into major natural regions takes account primarily of geomorphological, geological, hydrological, and pedological criteria in order to divide the country into large, physical units with a common geographical basis.

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Politics of Germany

Germany is a democratic, federal parliamentary republic, and federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

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Vilm

The Baltic Sea island of Vilm lies in the bay south of the much larger island of Rügen, it is one of Germany's most remote and tranquil spots.

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BfN, Bundesamt for Naturschutz, Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Federal Office for Nature Conservation.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Agency_for_Nature_Conservation

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