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Goose Management

WSF experts and stakeholders are working together with AEWA and its secretariat to implement goose management schemes on flyway level. The emphasis will be on management plans for Barnacle and Greylag Geese.

Green Harbour Concept

The Wadden Sea harbours play an important role for the socio-economic developments as well as for the cultural historic identity of the Region. A new environmental and climate friendly approach is necessary to contributing to a sustainable Wadden Sea Region.

Climate Change Adaptation

Natural and man-made climate change will have impacts on the living and development conditions in the Wadden Sea Region. The WSF is dealing with mitigation and adaptation measures to minimize negative impacts.

Coastal Management

The overall topic of the WSF is Integrated Coastal Management. It aims at an integrated sustainable development of the entire Wadden Sea Region and connecting the maritime area with the shoreline and the hinterland.

Shipping Safety

Increasing ship traffic and growing off-shore economic developments require sound safety standards also in ship traffic. Improvements of emergency plans, towing capacity and control systems are necessary to meet the future needs.

Maritime Spatial Planning

Off-shore developments are rapidly growing. An increasing demand for maritime space for various purposes require sound and integrated planning and management.

"The independent platform of stakeholders from Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands to contribute to an advanced and sustainable development of the trilateral Wadden Sea Region"

EVENTS

8-9 May
WSF 35 + GA 2019-1, Groningen, NL

6 March
SC 2019-1, HH or HB, D

3-4 December
TG-Climate 23, Bremen, D

28 November
WG ICZM 2018-3, Hamburg, D

27 November
Beirat NLPV, Wilhelmshaven, D

14-15 November
Marine Litter Workshop

13 November
WSB, Copenhagen, DK

1-2 November
WSF 34 + GA 2018-2, Büsum, D

WSF 34 plenary in Büsum, D

DithmLandeszeitung 12 11 18 The latest plenary meeting of the WSF took place on 1-2 November in Büsum, County of Dithmarschen, Germany. The main topic of the meeting were the workshop about Climate change adaptation strategies for the WSR. Others were Sustainable Indicators and the new partnership-center in Wilhelmshaven.
(find minutes, presentations and press article here)

Cultural Identity and Landscape-
Viking settlement Haithabu and Danewerk are now UNESCO Cultural Worldheritage Site

Wikingersiedlung Haithabu July 2018: Haithabu on the Schlei was the largest trading center in northern Europe in the 10th century. There lived Vikings as craftsmen and merchants. The border wall Danewerk protected them. The Danewerk fortification system and the Haithabu trading center in northern Schleswig-Holstein are among the most important archeological sites in northern Europe. Here man-made structures and contemporary natural landscape were inseparable from the unique geographical location on the Jutland peninsula.
read more NDR.de (German) and UNESCO.de (German) and WELT.de (German)

Inventory report for a climate-friendly Wadden Sea Region

online survey At the 11th Trilateral Governmental Conference for the Protection of the Wadden Sea on Sylt in 2010, it had been stated that the Wadden Sea Region (WSR) shall develop into a CO2-neutral region. This was reinforced at the conference in 2014 in Tønder.

To analyze the progress with regard to this aim, the Wadden Sea Board in cooperation with the WSF agreed to elaborate an inventory of CO2 reduction policies, measures and best practices. This was done on different levels, to get a complete picture, encompassing the European and national levels as well as the Wadden Sea Region with its provinces, counties and municipalities. On the local level only best practice examples have been compiled. The full report is now available for download. Inventory report for a climate-friendly Wadden Sea Region

Our new report "Developments in the Wadden Sea Region reflecting the role and achievements of the Wadden Sea Forum" is now available

WSF Developments report frontpage460 The WSF has elaborated a report about developments in the Wadden Sea Region, including status reports about the work on demographic change and sustainability indicators. The approach for this report was to consider the objectives and statements of the political level, expressed in the Ministerial Declaration of the Trilateral Governmental Conference 2014 in Tønder, Denmark. Taking this approach into account, this report recalls those statements of the Tønder Declaration, relevant for socio-economic developments and stakeholder involvement in the Wadden Sea Region, assesses the main developments accordingly and presents recommendations of the WSF stakeholders for future actions.