BfN views itself as the central service provider for all issues relating to nature conservation. Comprehensive and professional communications is thus a vital part of our work. We respond to phone and mail inquiries, produce our own publications, maintain classic archives, and provide modern Internet-based information.
These services are available to experts in all fields of nature conservation, and to interested individual citizens. This is the path to take if our communications work is to contribute to realizing our ambitious goal: to establish and promote nature conservation as a key concern throughout society.

The bedrock of BfN’s communications work is the publication of brochures, leaflets and posters on both general and specialized nature conservation topics, as well as continuous press work. It addition, BfN organizes exhibitions, events and campaigns to provide information and raise awareness of conservation issues.

BfN runs its own conference centre, the  International Academy for Nature Conservation on the Isle of Vilm near Rügen. Other institutions can use the centre for their seminars and workshops.

BfN has several publication series in which it publishes important research findings and project outcomes. The Agency also publishes a monthly scientific journal (“Natur und Landschaft”) containing original papers and cuttingedge reports on nature conservation and land-scape management.

With some 120,000 media units and more than 1,000 technical journals under subscription and archived, BfN’s combined library at three locations - Bonn, Leipzig and Vilm - is one of Europe’s largest nature conservation libraries.

BfN’s documentation centre records this literature in a database which is continuously updated and now contains more than 130,000 literature references.