Baltic Sea action plan short on actions
Krakow, Poland – A plan to achieve a good ecological status of the Baltic Sea lacks strong commitments to protect one of the world’s most threatened marine ecosystems, says WWF.
Baltic Sea Scorecard
The Baltic Score Card measures and grades the performance of the nine coastal Baltic Sea governments on a number of international and regional agreements in five areas of crucial importance to the Baltic Sea: maritime transport, pollution from hazardous substances, biodiversity protection, fisheries management and eutrophication.
Baltic Sea governments get bad grades for marine protection
Regional governments are failing in their efforts to protect and conserve the Baltic Sea, according to a WWF scorecard launched at this year's International Baltic Sea Festival.
Feeding the algae with tax money: EUTRO-farming and EU-trophication
The Baltic Sea is the largest brackishwater sea in the world. It is also the youngest sea on the planet which makes it one of the world’s most unique ecosystems. Over the past 100 years however the Baltic Sea has changed from a clear-water ecosystem to a eutrophic – nutrient rich – marine environment.
EU-trophication: Linking tax money to eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
Over the last century humans have transformed the Baltic Sea – a unique and highly vulnerable place – from a clear-water ecosystem into a eutrophic (nutrient rich) marine environment. Today, it is heavily contaminated by nutrients that cause eutrophication, algal blooms and a range of serious problems for the ecosystem and for the people living around, and earning a living from, the Baltic Sea.
Shipping companies commit to wastewater discharge ban in the Baltic
A new WWF survey reveals that most cruise and ferry companies operating in the Baltic Sea have failed to voluntarily ban the polluting practice of wasterwater dumping. But some companies are heeding the call.
Thousands sign WWF petition urging EU to save bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean
Some 12,000 citizens from across the world – representing over 130 countries and territories – have signed a WWF petition urgently requesting the European Commission delegation at ICCAT in Croatia to support the scientifically recommended recovery plan needed to stop the imminent collapse of bluefin tuna stocks in the Mediterranean.
