News – latest Wadden Sea stories

The newly published feasibility study titled “Nature Tourism Route around the North Sea Region” presents the case for adopting a responsible tourism approach to developing a new route.

What are the current trends in tourism and general and nature-based tourism in particular?

The World Fish Migration Foundation partners with Wildlife Forever to promote aquatic conservation through art by collaborating on their State-Fish Art contest.

On 27 November the first co-creation workshop within the Prowad Link project was organised in Leeuwarden for 20 participants.

On November 22 the Frysk-Dutch show Kanoet, which from now on goes through life as red knot, premiered in a German edition at the Oberschule primary school in Bunde in Germany.

On 21 November 2019 the 30th meeting of the Wadden Sea Board was held.

To reflect on the tour and the entire year and to say thank you to the many organisations and people involved, the organisers now released a video with the tour impressions.

On 4 to 7 November 2019, the PROWAD LINK project partners met in the project pilot region of North Norfolk Coast/ the Wash (UK).

The Expert Group Seals (EG-Seals) of the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation estimates a total of 40,800 harbour seals in their newly published 2019 harbour seal report.

As the Wadden Sea World Heritage is one ecosystem shared by three countries, Entrepreneurs, destination marketing organisations and local government also share the same challenges.

On 24-26 September 2019, scientists, managers, policy makers, NGOs and other stakeholders explored opportunities for cooperation and protection of migrating fish.

New IPCC-report underpins the importance of Danish-Dutch-German cooperation.