Wadden Sea World Heritage site

Satellite image of Europe at night with artificial lights spread across the land mass. © NASA.

26.03.2025

DARKER SKY Mid-Term Event: Advancing Light Pollution Research and Community Engagement

Project partners and stakeholders shared updates and insights on activities aimed at reducing light pollution and enhancing technical solutions and monitoring.

Two young women kneeling on a mudflat focusing on details on surface. © Laura Govers

28.10.2025 - 30.10.2025

16th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium

Groningen (NL)

Night image of a rat salvaging a bird egg on the beach. © Schutzstation Wattenmeer e.V.

09.09.2025 - 10.09.2025

Protecting birds in the Wadden Sea: Navigating opportunities and constraints of predation management

Online

18.03.2025

Save the Date: Wadden Sea Workshop 2025 on Predation Management

The Common Wadden Sea Secretariat invites site managers, conservationists, researchers, and experts in bird and predator management.

Beach in fog with people and wooden building in the distance. © CWSS/Bostelmann

07.03.2025

Wadden Sea social media communicators exchanged ideas at 6th trilateral workshop

The event strengthened collaboration and enhanced impactful communication approaches in digital outreach in support of protecting the Wadden Sea.

Group of students walking through colourful salt marsh. Hinke Lise Hoekstra.

10.03.2025

Call for Applications: Wadden Sea World Heritage Summer School 2025

Applications are now open for the Wadden Sea World Heritage Summer School 2025, taking place from 18-29 August 2025.

20.11.2025

47th Meeting of the Wadden Sea Board (WSB 47)

Online

25.09.2025

46th Meeting of the Wadden Sea Board (WSB 46)

tbc

27.05.2025 - 28.05.2025

45th Meeting of the Wadden Sea Board (WSB 45)

Hamburg (D)

18.08.2025 - 29.08.2025

Wadden Sea World Heritage Summer School 2025

Ribe (DK), Sylt (DE), Wilhelmshaven (DE)

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