Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008
The Japanese ship „Oriental Bluebird” is registered in Panama under the number 20380-92E. It is identified as an oil tanker. However, now the Panamanian government has withdrawn the registration and the flag from the ship as the Japanese have sailed under a false flag, so to speak.
This follows the discovery by International Nature-Conservation Organisations, that [...]
Freitag, 5. September 2008
Building climate-friendly offshore wind farms puts harbor porpoises at risk. The
construction work for the Danish “Horns Rev 2” wind farm, located west of Blavands Huk,
started in May. 91 foundation piles had to be driven into the ground, generating sound
pressures of up to 235 dB – levels which seriously jeopardize harbor porpoises. Time and
place could not [...]
Freitag, 5. September 2008
The survival of the world’s whales was once again on the agenda at the 60th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Santiago de Chile. But this time things were a bit different. William Hogarth (USA), the Commission’s Chair, appealed to members not to submit any new resolutions or proposals and nearly all countries [...]
read more...Samstag, 5. Juli 2008
On the occasion of the 9th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity, (CBD COP 9), the German NGO NABU warns that the projected Fehmarn Belt Bridge would pose a threat to biodiversity in the Baltic Sea . GSM shares this view. Construction would [...]
read more...Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008
Origins – Problems – Possible Solutions
A few years ago, a man was collecting amber on a beach on the island of Usedom . In the shallow water he saw something that looked exactly like amber. He picked up what he thought was a treasure and put it in his pocket. Shortly afterwards he had an [...]
Samstag, 5. April 2008
A photograph taken during this year’s Japanese whaling campaign is shocking the public worldwide. The picture shows two minke whales, a juvenile and an adult, being dragged into the belly of the Japanese whaling mother ship “Nisshin Maru”. Once on board, the two marine mammals will be dissected, examined and, later, eaten. This is what [...]
read more...Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008
2007 was a very bad year for harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea . On the basis of the number of stranded specimens found along the German coast from Flensburg to Greifswald , the German Society for the Conservation of Marine Mammals (Gesellschaft zum Schutz der Meeressäugetiere, [...]
read more...Mittwoch, 5. September 2007
On 20 June around noon, the GSM was informed of a horrible find. A dead harbour porpoise had been washed up onto Fischlegerstrand beach close to the “Koralle” campground near the Baltic Sea resort of Damp. According to Gino Vecchione, who informed GSM of the sad find, “the harbour porpoise had apparently been dead in [...]
read more...Mittwoch, 5. September 2007
Neumünster/Berlin – NABU (German Society for Nature Conservation), the GRD (Society for Dolphin Conservation) and the GSM (Society for the Conservation of Marine Mammals) have requested the State of Schleswig-Holstein and the Federal Government to impose an immediate cessation to detonations of old munitions’ deposits in the North and Baltic Seas in order to protect [...]
read more...Mittwoch, 5. September 2007
The lovely weather during the summer of 2006 brought it to light: the Baltic Sea is sick. It is suffering particularly from over-fertilisation, allowing an astronomical development of algae. The result: yellow carpets lap against the shoreline of many beaches. Bathing in the Baltic Sea has become unpleasant, sometimes even hazardous. [...]
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