News – latest Wadden Sea stories

As a next step towards a Trilateral Wadden Youth Network, the Wadden Sea Youth Weekend will be held on 9 to 12 May 2024 on Schiermonnikoog (NL).

To understand the dynamics of migratory bird populations and the pressures they face, a comprehensive count of migratory waterbirds takes place every three years in January along the East Atlantic Flyway (EAF).

Climate change is having profound effects on the Wadden Sea, primarily through temperature and sea level rise, as well as extreme weather events.

In response to the World Heritage’s Committee Decision 45COM 7B.23 of September 2023, a report was sent to the World Heritage Centre.

In October 2023, the three-year Interreg project VaBene was launched with the goal of developing sustainable experience programmes.

On 25 January 2024, more than two hundred stakeholders of the Dutch Wadden Sea region came together for a day full of inspiration and networking at the Wadden Festival.

For more than 8 years, since 2015, Janne Liburd contributed to the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation as WSB Member.

Scheduled from 17-19 April 2024, in Groningen, Netherlands, the second Trilateral Swimway Conference is dedicated to understanding and preserving diverse fish life cycles in the world's largest tidal flats system.

A lawyer by education, Anne-Marie Vægter Rasmussen has been working in the Danish Ministry of Environment for most of her career.

As a next step towards a Trilateral Wadden Youth Network, a larger event will be held on 9 to 12 May 2024 on Schiermonnikoog (NL).

In the school year 2022-2023, in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site, students from from Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands learned about the challenges climate change poses on the Wadden Sea and developed their own projects.

Visitor centres, private tour guides, and scientific organisations, and initiatives throughout the Wadden Sea provide an increasing choice of nighttime experiences for all ages.