Biosphere Reserves Germany

Biosphere reserves (§ 25 BNatSchG) serve the large-scale protection of natural and cultural landscapes. The main objectives are the preservation, development or restoration of a landscape characterised by its diverse uses and the diversity of species and biotopes that have grown historically. They will also serve as an example for the development and testing of sustainable economic practices in all sectors of the economy. The harmonised data set of biosphere reserves was merged by the Federal Office for Nature Conservation from data from the federal states. An update is made annually. Since the data come from different sources and are based on different measurement standards, deviations are possible in a position and also up-to-date. The MAB (Man and Biosphere) dataset can be created by filtering the MAB attribute from the Biosphere Reserves dataset.