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Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan 2010
  The Wadden Sea Plan constitutes the common framework for the protection and sustainable management of the Wadden Sea as an ecological entity. It is also the common management plan for the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site.

The Wadden Sea Plan 2010 was adopted at the 11th Trilateral Governmental Conference in Sylt. It updates the trilateral policies and management since the first Wadden Sea Plan was adopted at the Eighth Trilateral Governmental Conference in Stade in 1997. The plan was elaborated in accordance with the Leeuwarden Declaration 1994 entailing the common policies, measures, projects and actions of the countries for their joint efforts to fulfill the ecological targets.

Download: Wadden Sea Plan 2010

 

 
Wadden Sea World Heritage Site
 

At the Schiermonnikoog Governmental Conference 2005, it was agreed to start with the nomination of a major part of the Wadden Sea as World Heritage Site (Schiermonnikoog Declaration §8). The nomination dossier was submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Center in January 2008.

In June 2009, the Dutch-German Wadden Sea was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. >> More

 
Seal Management
  In the framework of the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation, the conservation and management of the Wadden Sea harbour seal population is of high importance. For your information, all trilateral activities, existing instruments and agreements regarding seals in the Wadden Sea are given in a short overview: Trilateral Conservation and Management of the Wadden Sea Seal Population

Currently in operation is the third Seal Management Plan, which is valid for the period 2007-2010.
The first "Conservation and Management Plan for the Wadden Sea Seal Population 1996 - 2000", was adopted in March 1996 and prolonged until 2001. At the Esbjerg II Conference (October 31, 2001) the second Seal Management Plan was adopted for the period 2002-2006. 

The number of counted seals in the Wadden Sea is published every year. Information about the Seal Epidemic 2002 has been compiled by the CWSS here

The Proceedings of the Texel Symposium "Management of North Sea Harbour and Grey Seal Populations", 29 - 30 November 2002 were published as "Wadden Sea Ecosystem No. 17" in 2003.

 
NATURA 2000 in the Wadden Sea
Information about NATURA 2000 areas in the Wadden Sea (maps, habitats, species)


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