The Workshop “Management of Natura 2000-sites on military training areas”, 28th September to 1st October 2015, at the International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm, Germany was organised by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) in cooperation with the Institute for Biodiversity – Network. This publication and the workshop were funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) with finan-cial resources of the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (Research and Development project “Workshopreihe zu aktuellen Themen der Umsetzung von Natura 2000”, FKZ 3512 80 1100).