Sechs Lebensräume hat der Faktencheck Artenvielfalt unter die Lupe genommen. Diese werden in einer Tortengrafik gezeigt: Agrar- und Offenland, Wald, Binnengewässer und Auen, Küsten und Küstengewässer, Urbane Räume und Boden.

Biodiversity assessment

Faktencheck Artenvielfalt is published in English - and as Video

“Faktencheck Artenvielfalt” is now available in English. A new social media video presents the occasion, implementation and key results of the project – compact, clear and targeted at a young audience.

The highly acclaimed Faktencheck Artenvielfalt was the first to show the actual state of biodiversity in Germany, identify trends and drivers and make recommendations to counteract the loss. With the English translation, the editors are now giving the international readership access to the comprehensive scientific evaluation.

“We need fact-based debates on biodiversity loss – both nationally and internationally,” says editor Christian Wirth. “The German Biodiversity Assessment is one of the first examples worldwide of how large international reports – such as the global and regional assessments of the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiverstiy and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) – can be tailored to a national context.” Only a few countries worldwide have carried out such a national assessment. The German Biodiversity Assessment could therefore serve as a role model.

To make this possible globally, Oekom-Verlag is initially publishing the abridged version of the work in English for societal decision-making. The complete work is expected to be published on June 26. The digital publications can be downloaded free of charge.

Faktencheck Artenvielfalt: using knowledge, protecting biodiversity

Video brings the German Biodiversity Assessment to social media

“It was important to us not only to translate our findings, but also to present them in a contemporary and target group-oriented way,” Wirth continues. “We produced a video for social media that brings the fact check and its results closer to a younger audience.”

“Young people in particular are our future. We need to bring them back into contact with nature, into contact with its value, so that they will want to preserve biodiversity,” adds Volker Mosbrugger, spokesperson for the Research Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity (FEdA). “That’s why we made this video. It is intended to reach young people where they look for their information today: on social media.”
Faktencheck Artenvielfalt was funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space as part of FEdA. An interdisciplinary team of over 150 scientists evaluated data, compared studies and comprehensively summarized the state of biodiversity research in Germany.

The results are sobering. Overall, 60% of the 93 habitat types examined are in an inadequate or poor condition. Formerly species-rich fields and grassland, moors, bog forests, swamps and springs are in the worst condition. The Assessment has identified only a few positive developments, such as in deciduous forests – but these are acutely threatened by climate change.

Faktencheck Artenvielfalt

Assessment of the status of biodiversity and prospects for conservation in Germany. Summary for Societal Decision Making.

Faktencheck Artenvielfalt

Full detailed assessment of the status of biodiversity and prospects for conservation in Germany. Summary for Societal Decision Making.