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go to top of page  Common seal = Harbour seal
(Phoca vitulina, German: Seehund)
You have found one of our seals' data-loggers? You have found one of our seals' data-loggers? Additional information is available from
www.minos-info.de/minos1_logger.htm

The seal epidemic 2002
http://www.waddensea-secretariat.org/

Jaap's Marine Mammal Pages about harbour seals
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/harbseal.htm#eastern

The British Mammal Society about common seals
www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/common_seal.shtml

Seals in the Wadden Sea (in German)
www.wattenmeer-nationalpark.de/leben/tiere/robben/seeh.htm

Seals in Schleswig-Holstein (in German)
www.umwelt.schleswig-holstein.de/servlet/is/22606/

How seals orientate themselves - new research results (in German)
www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pressemitteilungen-2002/msg00010.html

 
go to top of page  Sea birds
Bird monitoring in Germany
www.vogelmonitoring.de/

Picture of Divers
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/1613_13.htm

The Red-throated Diver / EU-Birds Directive
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/wildbirds/threatened/g/gavia_stellata_en.htm

The Black-throated Diver / EU-Birds Directive
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/wildbirds/threatened/g/gavia_arctica_en.htm

Picture of Long-tailed Duck / Oldsquaw
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/1615_45.htm

Common Scoter / Black Scoter, photo
www.naturschule.com/Anholter-schweiz/Tiere/Entenvoegel/
Seite3/58.htm

Information on the Common Scoter (in German)
www.schutzstation-wattenmeer.de/wissen/trauerente.html

 
go to top of page  Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena,
German: Schweinswal, Kleiner Tümmler)
June 2002 - Recovery Plan for Baltic harbour porpoises (ASCOBANS)
http://www.ascobans.org/index0503.html

Information on Harbour Porpoises (in German)
www.wattenmeer-nationalpark.de/leben/tiere/wale/schwein.htm

German Protection Area for Porpoises near the island of Sylt/North Sea (in German)
www.schutzstation-wattenmeer.de/wissen/walschutzgebiet.html

Download the "Atlas of cetacean distribution in north-west European waters" (August 2003)
www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2713

 
go to top of page  Telemetry and data-logging
Read what the manufacturer tells you about porpoise detectors (PODs)
www.chelonia.co.uk

Specification of mandibular sensors: Lip-reading in free-living penguins. In: Marine Biology 140: 17-27 (2002)
www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=u3nvy2turvfkjqw6

 
go to top of page  Protection Agreements
Designated marine protection sites in Germany according to EU directives (NATURA 2000) (in German)
www.HabitatMareNatura2000.de

Convention on Migratory Species
www.cms.int

African-Eurasian Migratory Water Bird Agreement
www.unep-aewa.org

Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS)
www.ascobans.org/index0101.html

Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea (D, DK, NL)
cwss.www.de/management/SMP/seals.html

EC FFH - Council directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (92/43/EWG, .PDF)
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/legislation/habitatsdirective/index_en.htm

EC Council directive on the conservation of the wild birds (79/409/EWG, .PDF)
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/legislation/birdsdirective/index_en.htm

 
go to top of page  Offshore wind energy
Strategy of the German Government on the use of off-shore wind energy
www.bmu.de/english/documents/doc/3389.php

Renewable energy sources in figures (German Environment Ministry, March 2004)
www.bmu.de/english/renewable_energy/doc/5996.php

Web Portal on Renewable Energies by the German Environment Ministry
www.bmu.de/english/renewable_energy/
current/aktuell/3860.php

BSH Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency - Facilities in the German Exclusive Economic Zone
www.bsh.de/en/Marine_uses/Industry/Wind_farms/index.jsp

BSH - Maps showing present and future uses of the German seas, including all planned windfarm sites
www.bsh.de/en/Marine_uses/Industry/CONTIS_maps/index.jsp

German Energy Agency Ltd. (Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH, dena), with lots of information on offshore wind energy
www.offshore-wind.de

A guided tour on wind energy
www.windpower.org/composite-85.htm

IWR International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien): Wind energy research group
www.iwr.de/wind/Welcomee.html

Joint project FINO (Research platforms in the North and Baltic Seas): For information about the ecological research project "BEOFINO" see menu item "Measurements/Investigations"
www.fino-offshore.com/

 
go to top of page  Offshore windfarms in Germany
Planned offshore windfarms in Germany (in GERMAN)
www.iwr.de/wind/offshore/nat_plan.html

See maps with the German offshore projects!
www.offshore-wind.de

go to top of page  German Baltic Sea (approvals and refusals)
Refusal of two applications for the Baltic Sea (Dec 21st, 2004):
"Adlergrund" und "Pommersche Bucht" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2004/36-2004.jsp

1st approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the Baltic Sea (11th April 2005):
"Kriegers Flak" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2005/11-2005.jsp

2nd approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the Baltic Sea (15th March 2006):
"Arkona Becken Südost" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2006/09-2006.jsp

go to top of page  German North Sea (approvals)
The 1st approval of an offshore windfarm site within the German in the North Sea:
"Borkum West" (9th Nov.2001)
www.prokon-nord.de/eng/index.html

2nd approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (18th Dec.2002):
"Butendiek" (press release in GERMAN)
http://www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2002/50-2002.jsp

3rd and 4th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (25th Feb.2004):
"Borkum Riffgrund West" and "Borkum Riffgrund" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2004/09-2004.jsp

5th and 6th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (6th June 2004):
"WINKRA" and "Amrum West" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2004/17-2004.jsp

7th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (23th Aug 2004):
"Sandbank24" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2004/23-2004.jsp

8th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (11th Feb 2005):
"Enova" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2005/06-2005.jsp

9th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (23rd Aug 2005):
"DanTysk" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2005/22-2005.jsp

10th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (1st Dec 2005):
"Nördlicher Grund" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2005/36-2005.jsp

11th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (26th May 2006):
"GlobalTech" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2006/12-2006.jsp

12th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (5th July 2006):
"Hochsee Windpark Nordsee" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2006/19-2006.jsp

13th approval of an offshore windfarm in the German in the North Sea (5th July 2006):
"Hochsee Windpark Nordsee" (press release in GERMAN)
www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/
Pressemitteilungen2006/26-2006.jsp

 
go to top of page  Offshore windfarms, international
Planned offshore windfarms, international
home.wxs.nl/~windsh/offshoreplans.html

Offshore windfarms in operation, international
home.wxs.nl/~windsh/offshore.html

Technical challenge: 5 MW-turbines in a water depth of 40 m off the Scottish coast (scheduled for 2006)
Press release: www.repower5m.de/news_uk.php?news_ID=29
Project site: www.beatricewind.co.uk/home/default.asp

The Danish Environmental Monitoring at Horns Rev und Nysted : Final reports
www.hornsrev.dk/Engelsk/Miljoeforhold/uk-rapporter.htm
www.ens.dk/sw42947.asp

The world’s most powerful offshore windfarm: "Nysted" in Denmark
http://uk.nystedhavmoellepark.dk

The world’s largest offshore windfarm: "Horns Rev" in Denmark
www.hornsrev.dk/Engelsk/default_ie.htm

"Horns Rev" Webcam
www.hornsrev.dk/video/uk-video.htm