International Conventions, Regional Agreements and EU Directives on Biodiversity
Alongside the 
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a large number of other international agreements play an important part in the conservation of biodiversity. These include the two other ‘Rio’ conventions adopted or negotiated together with the CBD at the Rio de Janeiro conference in 1992:
The following additional conventions and EU directives have a regional focus or address conservation of specific subdivisions of biodiversity:
Cartagena Protocol
(Biosafety Protocol, innerhalb der CBD)- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
(BfN is the enforcement agency for Germany) - World Heritage Convention
- Convention on Migratory Species (CMS, 1979)
- European Natura 2000 network of protected areas
(EU Birds Directive and Habitats Directive; BfN is the enforcement agency for the German marine Exclusive Economic Zone) - UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme
- Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area
(new Helsinki Convention, 1992) - Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
(Oslo-Paris/OSPAR Convention, 1992) - Ramsar Convention
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, 1971) - Antarctic Treaty and Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)
(Antarctic Treaty, 1959, and Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, 1991)
