Action Week "Achtung Artenvielfalt!" 2021
The first, nationwide action week “Achtung Artenvielfalt!” took place from 4th till 11th of Octobre 2021, initiated by the BMBF Research Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity (FEdA) and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research.
Immediately before the start of the 15th UN-biodiversity conference (CBD-COP 15) in Kunming, FEdA and Senckenberg drew attention to the meaning of biological diversity and the negative effects of the extinction of species with the action week. Twenty institutions, unions and projects organised digitally and on site different presentations, discussion rounds, conferences, a film evening and a podcast. Tours and excursions took place, not just in the Natural History Museums in Frankfurt and Berlin, but also in botanical gardens in Bonn, Potsdam, Osnabrück and Frankfurt. The whole, German program of the action week “Achtung Artenvielfalt!” 2021 can be found here for rereads.
The FEdA organised a free online viewing of the nominated documentary film “Racing Extinction” in the evening of the 4th Octobre. Afterwards, Prof. Aletta Bonn of the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and Prof. Klement Tockner, director general of the Senckenberg Society, about the state of the biological diversity and the question: “How do we win the race against extinction?” You can read a shortened version of their German conversation here.