News – latest Wadden Sea stories

The Wadden Sea celebrates the 10-year anniversary of its inscription on the World Heritage List and presents its anniversary programme at this year's ITB Tourism Fair in Berlin.

Managing predation risk for breeding birds in the Wadden Sea is the topic of the most recent publication of the Wadden Sea Ecosystem series.

CWSS and directors and managers of the German Wadden Sea National Park Administrations met for annual "Jour Fixe".

On 4 and 5 February over 50 stakeholders from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom took part in the first PROWAD LINK Forum.

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.