Research and technology

African Student in Chemnitz Enlarge image African Student in Chemnitz (© picture-alliance/ dpa)

Today, research and development-intensive industries account for more than half of all industrial production in Germany. Here you will find information about the major German research institutions.

Research and technology

NABU devotes 111th anniversary of its founding to biodiversity

NABU-Präsident Olaf Tschimpke vor der "Stoppt das-Artensterben"-Uhr.

The United Nations has designated 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Reason enough for the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) as official UN partner to devote this year – the 111th anniversary of its founding – to the dramatic decline in biodiversity. Globally, 16,000 species are regarded as threatened with extinction, that’s around a quarter of all mammals, a third of all amphibians and twelve per cent of birds.

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