Horst Freiberg is Head of Division for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forests, Biological Diversity and Climate Change at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in Bonn, Germany, since 2009. Previously, he served at the Bavarian Forest Service and in development cooperation projects in Latin America on forest regeneration and restoration, as well as forest education and capacity-building. At the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation in Bonn he covered the Convention on Biological Diversity.