Invitation to the press conference: Biodiversity crisis – challenges and possible solutions

Background talk with scientists and environmentalists on April 19, 2023 – In focus: wild bees as well as ferns and flowering plants

Vienna (OTS) – The biodiversity crisis does not stop at Austria. The Zoological-Botanical Society in Austria (ZooBot) invites you to a press conference: Franz Essl, Austrian Scientist of the Year 2022, botanist Luise Schratt-Ehrendorfer, wild bee researcher Heinz Wiesbauer and environmental chemist Helmut Burtscher-Schaden are all involved in the biodiversity crisis concrete examples from Austria tangible and discuss possible solutions for the preservation of biodiversity. Which causes does the extinction of species in Austria? Where is he political discourse in the fight against biodiversity crisis and climate crisis at EU level?

Your interlocutors:

• Prof. Dr. Franz Essl (Ecologist, Biodiversity Council, Austrian Scientist of the Year 2022)
• DI Heinz Wiesbauer (landscape ecologist, wild bee expert)
• dr. Luise Schratt-Ehrendorfer (Botanist, Editor of the Red List of Ferns and Flowering Plants)
• dr Helmut Burtscher damage (GLOBAL 2000 Environmental Chemist)

Specialist moderation Priv.-Doz. Dr. Elisabeth Haring (ZooBot, Natural History Museum Vienna, University of Vienna)

Hybrid Press Conference Details:

To register at [e-mail] is asked. Thanks very much!

Questions & contact:

Elisabeth Haring (ZooBot): [phone]; [e-mail]
Selina Englmayer (GLOBAL 2000): [phone]; [e-mail]