The EUROWA-2 project is in full swing, with a number of important technical developments and activities taking place, or progressing in the last few months. Sea Alarm has been coordinator and secretariat of the EUROWA network since its creation in…
Montenegro is in the process of redrafting its National Contingency Plan (NCP). As part of this process, Sea Alarm has been invited to assist with the development of a National Oiled Wildlife Response Plan for the country and to provide…
Sea Alarm is involved in two EU projects that focus on integrated management of marine incidents, the IRA-MAR project and the MODEX-DBX project. As part of the 'Improving the Integrated Response to Pollution Incidents at Sea and Chemical Risks in…
Sea Alarm is an Associated partner in the Preventing Oil and Plastics Contamination of Ocean Regions of the North (POPCORN) Project. This clustering project of the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) programme brings together either ongoing or already completed NPA…
The Sea Alarm team attended the Interspill 2022 conference, one of the main events in the international oil spill calendar. This year's conference took place in Amsterdam in June. Saskia Sessions-Puplett presented on the EUROWA network in the wildlife session…
The IOPC Funds approved the continuation of Sea Alarm’s observer status at the March 2022 meetings of the governing bodies. The International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) provide financial compensation for oil pollution damage that occurs in Member States…
Sea Alarm chaired, and participated in, the HELCOM Expert Group on Wildlife Response (EG Wildlife) on 7 February 2022.The group had recently renewed its Terms of Reference and mandate until the end of 2023, and also updated the recommendation on…
Technical Adviser Christophe Blazy has recently resigned from his position at Sea Alarm to join the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife of the Caribbean (SPAW-RAC) in Guadeloupe as Marine Ecosystems and Protected Areas Project Officer. In…
Baltic countries are continuing their efforts to look at oiled wildlife issues in the framework of regional cooperation and capacity building. Sea Alarm, who hold observer status at HELCOM, took part in the online HELCOM Response meeting on 29 September…
On 21 September, Sea Alarm successfully collaborated with Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) to deliver a webinar for the Mediterranean Oil Industry Group (MOIG) on Tiered Preparedness for Wildlife Response in the Mediterranean Region. Over 25 representatives from Mediterranean oil…
Sea Alarm successfully contributed to a sub-regional online workshop organised by REMPEC between 7 and 8 September 2021 within the framework of its efforts to further develop and harmonise national oil spill response preparedness across Mediterranean countries. This workshop was…
Sea Alarm presented two papers at the 2021 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), which was held completely online.