News – Neues aus der Wattenmeerregion

For the first time this year, tourism service providers from the Netherlands and the German Länder of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein are jointly represented at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin.

Joyful faces despite the bitter cold: Dorte Mandrup, winner of the international architectural competition for the construction of the trilateral Wadden Sea World Heritage Partnership Center, visited Wilhelmshaven.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the first official Wadden Sea World Heritage travel guide.

Partnering with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris, the Wadden Sea World Heritage will once again be represented at ITB, the world’s largest tourism fair.

On 2 February 2018, the three national delegations of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands as well as advisors from the Wadden Sea Forum and the NGOs Waddenvereniging and WWF met for the 22nd meeting of the Wadden Sea Board.

A new milestone has been reached in the preparations for the construction of the trilateral Wadden Sea World Heritage Partnership Center.

Geomorphology and climate, habitats and communities, species, human activities, and pollution of the Wadden Sea are the main areas of analysis in the Quality Status Report 2017 (QSR).

Sjon de Haan and Joke Pouliart from the Wadden Sea took part in the international workshop on "Building brand value for Marine Protected Areas with local communities" in Seoul, Korea.

On 17 November 2017, the three national delegations of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands as well as advisors from the Wadden Sea Forum and the NGOs Waddenvereniging and WWF met for the 21st meeting of the Wadden Sea Board.

In just three years, the number of natural World Heritage sites threatened by climate change has doubled, growing from 35 to 62.

During the 2017 aerial surveys for harbour seal counts, the number of newborn harbour seal pups in the Wadden Sea registered was the highest since the first surveys in 1975.