Senckenberg Topics

About the importance of saving the biodiversity of our planet and the CBD Zero Draft

Interview with Dr. Hanieh Saeedi (SF)

Senckenberg researcher Dr. Hanieh Saeedi explains why assessments like the Zero Draft are important and why we need to act on saving the biodiversity of our planet immediately. 

IPBES Global Assessment Report 2019

The report covers a comprehensive description about the state of global ecosystems and their diversity and answers important key questions.

Planetary Boundaries

In 2009, Johan Rockström (Stockholm Resilience Centre) and 28 international scientists published the article A safe operating space for humanity, in which they identified nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. Read more about them here.

Science provides impetus

Those who want to bring science into the realm of politics and society face new challenges. The director of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and Senckenberg board member Katrin Böhning­-Gaese identifies what these challenges are and how Senckenberg will approach them constructively.

Oceans in Climate Change

An Interview with Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt

Plastic pollution and acidification are changing the oceans. But about 70 percent of our planet is covered by seas, which are thus the largest living space on earth. Our oceans have an enormous influence on the climate, the metabolic cycles and therefore our daily environment!

Wolf monitoring at Senckenberg

Interview with Dr. Carsten Nowak

There have been wolves in Germany since they returned twenty years ago. This has caused controversy in politics and the media to this day. Dr. Carsten Nowak from the Senckenberg Research Institute speaks about wolf monitoring and Senckenberg's role as a reference center in Germany.

Taxonomy for Sustainability

Climate change and other man-made changes in the environment endanger existing and undiscovered species. Dr. Kai-Horst George from the Senckenberg German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research explains where taxonomy can help and what the work of taxonomists looks like in everyday life.

Insect Death: What Should We Do?

Insect death is in full swing worldwide. Why humans are seen as the main cause of these problematic developments and what effects the decline in insects has, explains Dr. Viola Clausnitzer.

Birds in ecosystems

Director of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and member of the Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese talks about birds in Germany, bird death and the important contribution that different bird species make to our environment.