Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Federal Agency for Nature Conservation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Agency overview
Formed	15 August 1993 (31 years ago) (1993-08-15)[1]
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Robert-Schuman-Platz 3, 53175 Bonn, Germany
Minister responsible	Steffi Lemke, Federal Environmental Minister
Agency executive	Sabine Riewenherm, President
Website	www.bfn.de

The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (German: 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 (BMU).

The Agency provides the German Environment Ministry with professional and scientific assistance in all nature conservation and land 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.