BUND calls for more protection for the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site
The German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) is calling for better protection of the Wadden Sea in the expansion of offshore wind energy and planned natural gas extraction, particularly in order to preserve the title of "UNESCO World Heritage Site". The protection of the Wadden Sea must be consistently prioritised over economic interests, as the status of the area is severely threatened by exploitation interests. In the last status report from September 2023, the UNESCO World Heritage Commission declared that the extraction of raw materials was incompatible with the Wadden Sea's World Heritage status. UNESCO had therefore called on Germany and the Netherlands to refrain from oil and gas extraction in the Wadden Sea and its immediate surroundings. BUND demands...
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