Biofrankfurt
The non-profit association BioFrankfurt - The Network for Biodiversity e. V. is supported by fourteen institutions, some of them internationally active, in the Rhine-Main area in the fields of research, education and nature conservation. The institutions work together to preserve biological diversity and to strengthen public awareness of the importance and research of biodiversity .
aims
The network joined forces in 2004 to
- to raise the media and public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and its conservation,
- Communicate the global dimension of the importance of biodiversity,
- to bundle the knowledge and experience of individual institutions and thus to work more efficiently for the conservation and research of biological diversity.
Since July 2014 the network has been a registered association that is recognized as a non-profit organization.
activities
The organization designs, bundles and communicates activities with a regional focus in the Rhine-Main area, such as the nature experience week that takes place annually in May with around 40 contributions. It also organizes activities for school classes and families as well as guided tours and public lectures for adults on key topics. From 2007 to 2009 the organization carried out a well-known campaign for the biodiversity region Frankfurt / Rhine-Main , which drew attention to the comparatively large biological diversity in the Frankfurt area. The campaign is considered exemplary ( best practice ) for public relations work on the subject of biodiversity in Germany. Since 2009, workshops have also been offered for school classes, in which pupils can spend a whole morning actively dealing with the topic of biological diversity directly at their school and discovering what they can contribute to its conservation themselves.
A scientific and political success of the networking was the establishment of the cross-institutional Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt in 2008, funded by the State of Hesse . As a result of this and other activities, such as Germany-wide representative surveys and the promotion of the educational and communication aspect, BioFrankfurt appears nationwide and internationally.
In September 2015, BioFrankfurt was recognized as an official project of the UN Decade of Biodiversity and recognized as a pioneer for how institutions at regional level can join forces and work together for the conservation of biological diversity.
Members
The current members are:
- City of Frankfurt am Main with Palmengarten , Environment Agency and Frankfurt Zoo
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
- Senckenberg Society for Natural Research
- Hochschule Geisenheim University
- WWF Germany
- Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Conservation e. V. (HGON)
- German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB)
- by Opel Hessische Zoostiftung (Opel-Zoo Kronberg)
- Frankfurt Zoological Society
- Tropica Verde e. V.
- MainÄppelHaus Lohrberg
- Ornithological observation station Untermain e. V.
The chairman of the board is Peter Dommermuth, head of the Frankfurt Environment Agency. The managing director of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, Christof Schenck, is his deputy.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BioFrankfurt is now a non-profit association . Frankfurter Neue Presse from August 5, 2014
- ↑ Jung, S., Schenck, C., Streit, B .: The public perception of the biodiversity concept. Results of representative surveys from 2007–2011 . Natur und Landschaft 87 (2012), pp. 483–488
- ↑ Krutschinna, J., Streit, B .: The biodiversity network BioFrankfurt: An innovative strategic approach to integrative research, conservation, and education . BioRisk 5 pp. (2009)
- ^ Jung, S., Streit, B .: Communicating biodiversity and wilderness to urban people . International Journal of Wilderness 19 (3): 37-41 (2013)
- ↑ UN decade of living.nature. diversity