Action Week
"Achtung Artenvielfalt!"
The nationwide action week for the protection of biodiversity
Throwback to the third round of the action week “Achtung Artenvielfalt!” in 2023.
From apple varieties to migratory birds: From October 9-15, 2023, the action week “Achtung Artenvielfalt!” took place for the third time. FEdA and the Leibniz Natural History Museums once again brought together events across Germany to focus attention on the role of biodiversity in our lives.
Nature conservation associations, museums, zoos, gardens and research institutions across Germany got involved with over 70 events both online and offline. Discussion rounds, special guided tours in museums and botanical gardens, documentary films, podcasts and excursions. FEdA has published the nationwide study “Zielvorstellung Biodiversität – Biodiversitätsbewusstsein in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft”, which was carried out by ISOE, and discussed the state of biodiversity awareness in agriculture and forestry in an expert discussion. Watch the recording of the discussion.
Prominent personalities have campaigned for biodiversity. Löwenzahn presenter Guido Hammesfahr emphasized that the topic of biodiversity concerns us all. Documentary filmmaker and author Christian Ehrlich explains how closely interlinked the interplay of species is – and what the extinction of even just one species means.
Faktencheck Artenvielfalt, the FEdA project for the comprehensive assessment and evaluation of biodiversity in Germany, presented the most important habitats in Germany on social media this year. The authors focused on a different habitat every day and explained what threatens it and what protects it. Read the posts here.
The campaign week is organized by the Research Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity (FEdA) and the Leibniz Natural History Museums – the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Senckenberg Museums in Frankfurt am Main, Görlitz & Dresden and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change in Bonn & Hamburg. The nationwide campaign week “Attention Biodiversity!” was launched in 2021 by the FEdA and the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.