Habitat Mare

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Logo of the Habitat Mare campaign
Action ship Saelör off Langeland, Denmark 2007

Habitat Mare was the marine protection campaign of the Swedish nature conservation youth Fältbiologerna and the nature conservation youth NAJU, with which both organizations campaigned for the sustainable preservation of Europe's seas and coasts. With the help of a petition, the organizations achieved that the European Parliament had to give its opinion on the designation of European marine protection areas and the fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt. The campaign was concluded with a seminar in Westerhever in 2008.

Action 2007

In the summer of 2007, the two associations carried out the "Habitat Mare - Rescue Team 2007" campaign. 18 members of Fältbiologerna and NAJU sailed from Kappeln ( Schleswig-Holstein ) to Malmö ( southern Sweden ). In the ports, tourists and locals were told about the threat to the Baltic Sea ecosystem. B. informed by overfishing, eutrophication and the risk of shipping accidents . One focus of the campaign was to provide information about the planned Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link and its ecological consequences in Denmark and Sweden .

The action was followed by a joint petition sent to Swedish and German MEPs from the Environment and Transport Committee. The petition was sent directly to the European Parliament and approved as a petition to Parliament.

The action was initiated on the German side by NAJU Hamburg. In 2007 the Colin ArcherSaeløer ” and the gaff ketch “Albin Köbis” from Kiel were on the move as action ships . The campaign was funded in 2007 by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and the North German Foundation for Environment and Development NUE.

Action 2008

In the summer of 2008 a seminar on the topics of biodiversity and sea level rise took place in the Wadden Sea House Westerhever of the Wadden Sea Protection Station. Members of the DJN also took part. The organizer was NAJU Hamburg.

The Fehmarnbelt link, which is becoming more specific through a state treaty between Denmark and Germany, was discussed in the Bundestag in autumn 2008. A letter of protest was sent to members of the Bundestag from all parliamentary groups and asked for their comments. The aim was to make a broader political public aware of the planned major project in the context of European marine protection.

The submitted petition was sent to the European Commission and declared admissible on March 26, 2008. On September 26, 2008, the European Commission responded to this in petition 1156/2007. This communication was sent to the European Parliament and all member states.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Petition 1156/2007 (PDF; 99 kB)