Deletion of water bodies in Estonia – an action that was finally repealed

CCB • Apr 30, 2011

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.

Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Ottawa - INC4

By CCB • 24 Apr, 2024
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.

CMS grants the endangered Baltic Proper Harbour Porpoise the highest protection status following concerted action from NGOs

By CCB • 15 Feb, 2024
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.
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