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Light pollution from artificial lights at night adversely affects migratory birds and other animals. The good news is that we can do something about it with targeted measures. The Wadden Sea Flyway Initiative and the Trilateral Dark Sky Initiative have joined forces in creating an animation for World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2022. This animation and more information can now be found on our website.
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There has been a trilateral symposium to stress the importance of science for the management of the Wadden Sea World Heritage in the context of climate change. The report is now available on our website.
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There is increasing evidence that artificial light at night alters behaviour, space usage, migration, physiology, development and reproduction in almost all groups of organisms, including plants and micro-organisms. PRW, in the context of the Trilateral Dark Sky initiative, has commissioned a review of this in cooperation with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat and the Partnership hub.
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The Programme towards a Rich Wadden Sea , together with the Province of Noord-Holland, Staatsbosbeheer and Rijkswaterstaat, prepared a short animation about the importance of dune dynamics. You can find the animation on this page.
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On Friday the 11th of March 2022 the 4th webinar of the trilateral Community of Understanding Sediment Solutions was held. In the webinar a broad set of themes were presented and discussed. You can find the presentations on our website.
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A Wadden Sea area full of fish seems to be an image from a bygone age. The new report Swimway Wadden Sea and Hinterland, drawn up by the consultancy OAK and the World Fish Migration Foundation, breathes new life into this image. The report was commissioned by the Programma naar een Rijke Waddenzee (PRW) (Programme towards a Rich Wadden Sea), Rijkswaterstaat and the Wadden Investment Framework.
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Erika Compatangelo a third-year Bachelor’s student of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen has worked for the past three months as an intern at Programme towards a Rich Wadden Sea. In this period she has created The Wadden Logbook, you can find the final result on our YouTube channel now.
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The legal protection of the underwater nature on the grounds of the European directives appears to be implemented differently per country. Compared to Germany and Denmark, the Netherlands has brought fewer species and habitats under the protection regime. Please find on our site a summary of the webinar and the presentations.
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24 september from 9.00 – 12.00 a trilateral webinar takes place. In the webinar, speakers from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands will show how European subtidal nature has been implemented in national legislation and how this works out in practice. Please sign up if you want to join.
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