Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management - project Baltic MANURE

The Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management is a flagship project under the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The Baltic MANURE project will focus on the link between economic growth and environmental benefits to make rural areas more prosperous through sustainable manure mangagement.  

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The 2nd EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Annual Forum and the 13th Baltic Development Forum Summit 2011

The Baltic Development Forum and the European Commission together organized the common event in Gdansk, Poland, on 24-26 October 2011, with cooperation of Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and authorities of Pomorskie Region.  

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Lomonosov town - pearl at the sea shore or port and indutrial zone?

Coastal residents who care about the town and the Gulf of Finland visited the Friends of the Baltic information action witin the Oranienbaum Marine Festival, dedicated to the 300th annviersary of Lomonosov.

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Ecological sanitation in rural areas of the Western Bug River Basin in Ukraine

Approximately 20-40 % of the rural population of Central and Eastern Europe have no proper sanitation. In the Ukrainian part of the Western Bug River the majority of the population lives in rural areas.

Several alternatives for addressing sanitation in rural areas are available today. In rural areas of the Ukrainian part of the Western Bug River Basin attempts to introduce dry toilets has been shown particularly appropriate. It promotes raised living standards to the level of the cities with a low cost and reduces water pollution through wastewater and eliminates the risks to human health.

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Deletion of water bodies in Estonia

- an action that was finally repealed

In April 2011 a precedent occurred in the domain of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Estonia in the form of deleting a large amount of the officially registered water bodies (lakes, streams, rivers and even entire bay areas). As a result of a dispute, the Ministry of Environment requested in a letter to revise the objects in the national environment register and make corrections so that it would comply with the lists of the books for lakes and rivers, published in 1964 respectively 1986. However, in reality there are many objects in these books that either no longer exist or have changed in some way. Other objects are not included as these have been created or emerged later than these books were published. Consequently the letter resulted in the “deletion” of more than 4600 water bodies from the publicly accessible part of the national environment register.

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Anglers against poachers: Sea trout have successfully spawned in the river Tartak, Belarus

The river Tartak is a small, shallow creek in the Vilia/Neman river catchment in Belarus. This autumn, 2010, more than 50 female sea trout have gone upstream the river, and most of them spawned successfully. This is very unusual due to the fact that poachers have usually taken almost all of the spawning sea trout from the local rivers. Thanks to a volunteer river patrol brought together during the spawning season, for the first time in many years the poachers did not show up and the sea trout could survive.

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Post card campaign on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland

In connection with the yearly Green World environmental biketrip, from 26 July to 1 August 2010, CCB supported the post card campaign, with the message to stop poaching and save the population of wild Baltic Salmon in Luga River, Russia.

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Environmental Degradation of Russian Coastal Regions: The Case of the Gulf of Finland

The authors, Trumbull and Bodrov, devote particular attention to two major developments, a multifunctional port complex and expansion of an existing nuclear power plant. Based on extensive personal observations and government documents, they analyze the emerging environmental threat posed by these initiatives as well as the challenging political environment that discourages public participation and local involvement in spatial planning.

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Dry toilet demonstration sites in Russia

Releases of household wastwater from settlements in rural areas of the Leningrad region considerably contribute to the pollution of rivers and lakes, and thus the Baltic Sea, since the wastewater is usually not processed at all.

This summer CCB supported a CEI project on construction of two demonstration sites with urine separating toilets in the Leningrad region.

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Baltic Salmon in Belarus? YES!

  It has finally been confirmed that Baltic Salmon (Salmo salar) is indeed living in the Vilia basin in Belarus. In September 2009 researchers of the Belarus Academy of Sciences found young salmon in the Dudka river, about 800 m upstream the confluence with Vilia.

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First cycle River Basin Management Plans under our control?

The European Community has faced the important challenges to recover the good status of water bodies by 2015, as required by the Water Framework Directive. Water in rivers, estuaries and coasts will hopefully improve under measures set up in the River Basin Management Plans drawn up for river basin districts across Europe.

Read the article by CCB Water Policy Officer Anna Smolka, on her experience from the RBMP planning process.

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Report from the International River Watch Camp in Belarus

Between July 30 - August 5 2008, an International River Watch Camp was organised by ARB BirdLife (Belarus) and Friends of the Baltic (Russia) at the Vileiskoye lake (basin of Western Dvina) in Belarus.

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Salmon management

Read about salmon management in Denmark and the new ban on driftnets that came into force in the Baltic Sea on 1st of January 2008.

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Belarus Environmentalists are Pressing Ahead with the Project to Protect Baltic Salmons

In the small Belarus town of Ostrovets the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Round Table was held on the 14 th December 2007.

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Report from the Estonian National Salmon Forum held in December 2007

Taavi Nuum, Estonian Green Movement, gives his reflections on the situation for salmonids in Estonian waters.

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Organic Agriculture in Belarus - Does it exist?

Nina Palutskaya, CCB salmon project leader in Belarus asks herself this question. Read her answer.

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Atlantic salmons spawning in the river Tartak, Belarus, November 2007

Nina Palutskaya, CCB project leader of the project "Restoration of wild salmon habitats - preparation and awareness raising" in Belarus, recorded Atlantic salmons spawning in the Tartak river. Read about her experience.

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Environmental specialists from Belarus and Lithuania met at the CCB workshop in Vilnius 23-24 August 2007

Nina Palutskaya, CCB project leader of the project "Restoration of wild salmon habitats - preparation and awareness raising" in Belarus, attended the meeting.

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Environmental education programme River Watch supported by CCB arrived Belarus about two years ago and captured the imagination of several schools straight away.

Nina Palutskaya from Belarus writes about the implementation of the River Watch programme in her country.

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