Dr. Wolfgang Epple has been active in nature conservation for more than 50 years. After studying biology and chemistry, dissertation on the ethoecology of the barn owl. Volunteer and full-time in the 1980s as state manager of NABU (former German Association for Bird Protection) association Baden-Württemberg. Further work in a higher special authority of the state of Baden-Württemberg and in the 1990s many years of expert work for the former Lower Saxony State Office for Ecology, each at the interface of nature conservation/use/agriculture. For 30 years in-depth engagement with the protection of species in conflict of interest and with the ethics of nature conservation. State advisory board and scientific advisory board of the Naturschutzinitiative e.V. (NI). He maintains his own homepage on holistic nature conservation: https://wolfgangepplenaturschutzundethik.de/