Wilderness International

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Wilderness International
  • Location in Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • With around 32,000 students at about 100 institutes and clinics, it is one of the twenty largest universities in Germany.

The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a long-standing partner of Wilderness International. This includes research on ethnobotany together with the Gwich'in First Nation in the West Arctic and on the flora of the temperate rainforests of western Canada. Professor Dr. Thomas Efferth, Head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, coordinates scientific studies with us.