Karin Ullrich

German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Karin studied biology at the University of Freiburg in Germany and afterwards worked at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology Zurich where she got her PhD degree at the depart-ment of environmental sciences. Since 2001 she has been working for the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) in the department for biotope protection and land-scape ecology. Her main fields of work are ecological networks and in this context also the German and European Green Belt and lately in addition the protection of bogs and mires. She has been involved in the European Green Belt Initiative since the very beginning and overseen various projects concerning the Green Belt funded by BfN such as a habitat survey of the German Green Belt, the project “Experience Green Belt”, various regional and overall meetings of the European Green Belt initiative as well as a database and mapping project on the European Green Belt. She also served as an advisor for the INTERREG Project “Green Belt” that ran in central Europe and in which BfN was an associated partner as it now is in the INTERREG-project “Baltic Green Belt”.

 
Contact details:
Dr. Karin Ullrich
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
Konstantinstr. 110
53179 Bonn
Germany
www.bfn.de