Baltic Green Belt
For a living & sustainable Baltic coast
For decades, many coastal strips along the former
socialist countries were completely or partly closed to public access.
Not only did these strips demark national borders, but even constituted
a barrier seperating two systems. This former seperative line formed
the basis for the Baltic Green Belt. Similar to the terrestrial
border strips, these areas preserved vast, almost pristine stretches
of coastland. Some of them were successfully designated as nature
reserves or national parks after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
However, many pearls of nature up to now grace the water line both
above and below the water surface largely undiscovered, unrecognised
and unprotected. Sea weed forests and sea gras meadows, bogs and
beach walls, lagoons, bays and many other submarine and terrestrial
paradises are typical of the Green Belt along the
Baltic.
The conservation and sustainable development of
these habitats will be persued within the Baltic Sea Region Programme
project Baltic Green Belt.
The Baltic Green Belt project community is
establishing a platform for
transnational cooperation between stakeholders working
in nature
conservation and sustainable development of the
southern and eastern Baltic Sea coast. The Baltic Green Belt project
brings together a set of diverse partners engaged in sustainable
economy and ecology development. The partnership consists of NGOs,
scientific institutions, public authorities and economic stakeholders
and thus excellently mirrors the Green Belt approach of successfully
integrating a wide set of actors and supporters.
The Baltic Green Belt
project demonstrates good practice in sustainable tourism, ecological
agriculture, coastal and marine conservation, integrated regional
planning and public participation. By preserving natural zones
and biodiversity through sustainable coastal development practice,
the Baltic Green Belt project serves the implementation of the
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea and the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action
Plan.
Baltic
Green Belt website
Coastal Hot Spots
map
See
map
Inventory of the
need for proper protection of the coastal zones
- a workshop arranged
by CCB at the BGB 2nd Forum, the 14th of April 2010, in Palanga,
Lithuania
Introduction
to the workshop
The workshop focused on
implementation of EU-directives, integrated management and the protection
of the coastal zone with some examples of the work within CCB showing
different kinds of impact that are harmful to the quality of the
coastline
-harmful installations
-lack of territorial planning,
Natura 2000 sites
-eutrophication, mainly
caused by diffuse sources which is met with activities related to:
- sustainable wastewater
management and eco-sanitation
- nutrient-balanced agriculture
practices and organic farming
Power Point presentations
by:
Russia
Olga Senova, Friends of
the Baltic, Challenges
for the Coastal Zone of the Gulf of Finland
Latvia
Janis Matulis, Latvian
Green Movement, Challenges
of nature protection and NGO activities in Latvia
Belarus
Irina Sukhy, Ecohome,
What can we do for the Baltic? Organic
agriculture (ru) and Ecosanitation (en)
Poland
Maria Staniszewska, Polish
Ecological Club, Eutrophication,
causes and results
Jakub Skorupski/David
Zyskowski, Green Federation GAJA, Polish
Green Belt (Project part-financed by the European Union (ERDF)
within the BSRP programme
This work is being followed
up with more thorough reports from each country
www.eu.baltic.net
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