In the past five years, the number of grey seal pups in this region has shown an average annual growth rate of 13 percent, while the number of adult animals counted during the moult grew by 12 percent annually.

Vadehavet kan yde et værdifuldt bidrag til vores udfordringer med klima, forurening og tab af biodiversitet: Vadehavet er et naturligt og artsrigt økosystem, hvis typiske habitat spiller en vigtig rolle i forbindelse med kulstofbinding. Ved siden af dets enestående universelle værdi er det endnu en grund til at beskytte det for nuværende og fremtidige generationer.

Harbour seals, the most well-known seal species in the Wadden Sea, are monitored annually through aerial surveys that cover the entire Wadden Sea World Heritage site and the island of Helgoland.

“Who eats whom” was at the centre of this year’s Wadden Sea Day, held on 25 August in Wilhelmshaven.

Since their recolonization of the Wadden Sea in the mid 20th-century, the grey seal population has considerably increased.

The Programme towards a Rich Wadden Sea, together with the Province of Noord-Holland, Staatsbosbeheer and Rijkswaterstaat, prepared a short animation about the importance of dune dynamics.