Wetlands for clear water
CCB • Mar 24, 2011
“Wetlands for clear water” was the headline of a seminar organized March 24th – 25th, in Greifswald Germany by Grune Liga and University of Greifswald. Over 40 participants from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and other European countries (Romania, Turkey) could follow 12 lectures on creation, restoration and utilization of wetlands as nutrients’ traps for the diffuse sources of water pollution (mostly from agriculture). The seminar addressed the question how the proper wetland management can contribute to the goal of reducing nutrient loads and eutrophication of Baltic Sea.
On April, 21 the 4 th session of Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee to develop a global plastics treaty has started in Ottawa, Canada. Coalition Clean Baltic along with some of its Members, including SSNC, ASC/CES, and Ecopartnerstvo is taking part in INC-4.
The common harbour porpoise is critically endangered in the central Baltic Sea and off the Iberian Peninsula, with only a few hundred individuals left. However, effective measures to enable the recovery of these special populations have so far been lacking. At the meeting of the UN Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP14, 12-17 Feb 2024), the Baltic Proper harbour porpoise has now been included in Appendix I: This recognises this sub-population as critically endangered and emergency measures can be taken to save it.