Articles deal with sustainable development, the functions of biospheres, the challenges of the climate change, the job creation through nature protection, and provide an outlook to the third World Congress of Biosphere Reserves which will take place in Madrid in 2008.

Throughout the journal, specific biosphere reserves in Germany and abroad are presented in brief, complemented to a hyperlink where further information is available.

The magazine is available in PDF on the website of the German UNESCO Commission at this external link.