On 14th March 2018 ArnikaHessen, a joint project of the Botanical Gardens Marburg, Hochschule Geisenheim University and the Philipps University Marburg, was officially honoured as a project of the UN-Decade on Biodiversity. The award was presented by Dr. Matthias Kuprian from Hessen’s Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (HMUKLV) during an ArnikaHessen event at the Naturschutz-Akademie Hessen (NAH), Hessen’s Nature Conservation Academy. This prize is awarded on behalf of the UN-Decade on Biodiversity Agency to projects that promote the preservation of biological diversity in an exemplary manner.
A yellow sea of flowers as far as the eye could see. Arnica (Arnica Montana) is a medicinal plant that was once a common sight in many parts of Germany. In recent decades, however, populations of the plant have declined dramatically, in Hessen as ...