News – latest Wadden Sea stories

For the past week, the relevant authorities as well as countless volunteers have worked at retrieving the cargo lost by container ship Zoe in the North Sea off the Dutch and German island of Borkum on the night of 1-2 January.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published guidelines on sustainability for "Tourism and visitor management in protected areas".

On 27th to 28th of November, the Prowad Link partners met in Esbjerg to develop new perspectives of sustainable tourism and plan further project steps.

Mandø and the Wadden Sea are among the 15 most important natural treasures in Denmark.

On 13 November 2018, the Wadden Sea Board (WSB 27) was held in Copenhagen.

To discuss the impacts of marine litter on UNESCO World Heritage marine sites, World Heritage marine managers and marine litter experts from 11 different nations joined forces.

The Trilateral Seal Expert Group (TSEG) published report “Aerial surveys of Harbour Seals in the Wadden Sea in 2018”.

The first PROWAD LINK partner meeting in Hamburg on 25-26 September 2018 served as starting point of the project.

Stakeholders from the trilateral Wadden Sea community met on 30 August 2018 in Wilhelmshaven to discuss sediment dynamics and management.

On August 20 and 21, 2018, the heads of the secretariats of the European Water Commissions and Conventions and the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation gathered for their annual meeting at the CWSS premises in Wilhelmshaven.

CWSS is pleased to welcome Sergio Rejado Albaina, the new Regional Flyway Coordinator for Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), to the CWSS premises!

In 2016, CWSS initiated an annual jour fixe of the Secretariats of the three German natural World Heritage sites aimed at exchanging information, fostering synergies and increasing their visibility among German World Heritage sites.