Summary:

Thuringia is one of the leading countries in Germany in the range of eco-development principles implementation and proecological changes.
The paper outlines the chosen elements of present sozological problematics of Thuringia - protected areas, wildcat protection and the Green Belt.
Various forms of nature and landscape protection comprise together 71% of total country area.
In the range of the protection of disappearing population of the wildcat - the special ecological corridors are being built between the Thuringian Forest and larger forest complexes. The Green Belt of Thuringia (constituting part of the European Green Belt) comprising a boarder belt 763 km long - is the subject of maintenance measures shaping its natural, historical and utilisation values. In this Belt numerous local projects concerning biotopes shaping, protected areas making, matching the requirements of agriculture, recreation and nature are being intro-duced - with spatial planning, rural land management and village renewal.