Sea Alarm at the 2024 IOSC
The ladies of the Sea Alarm team had a successful week at the 2024 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) in May in New Orleans. We had the opportunity to present a range of topics, including the use of serious games…
EUROWA-2 project news
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 Wildlife Planning: stakeholder workshop and fact-finding mission
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 at Interspill 2022 conference
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…
Self-Assessment Tool goes online + Updates on Baltic oiled wildlife preparedness
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…
National oiled wildlife training course to further Estonian preparedness
On 7 and 8 October, Sea Alarm was invited by the Estonian Ministry of Environment to deliver a face-to-face national training course about oiled wildlife response as part of the EU-funded Interreg OIL SPILL Project dedicated to the Baltic Sea…
HELCOM members take further steps to enhance oiled wildlife response
Baltic countries are continuing their commitment to improving oiled wildlife response through the HELCOM Expert Working Group on Oiled Wildlife Response (EWG-OWR),and most, recently via an online seminar on the role of euthanasia within oiled wildlife response.
Sea Alarm promotes EUROWA-2 project to European Regional Agreements
The first half of the year has been promising for the recognition of oiled wildlife preparedness and response as a priority in Europe. In May, Sea Alarm participated in important meetings organised by the Bonn Agreement and REMPEC where this topic was raised.
Six months into the EUROWA-2 project – what’s new?
The first half of the year has seen Sea Alarm and EUROWA-2 project partners make a start on a wide range of activities which will result in big strides forward in European oiled wildlife preparedness.
EUROWA-2: Moving the EUROWA project forward
We are very pleased to report that the EUROWA-2 project will begin in January, marking an important milestone in development of oiled wildlife preparedness in Europe. EUROWA-2 will be a 2-year project co-funded by the European Commission’s Civil Protection Financial Instrument.
Sea Alarm’s first 20 years: We are stronger together – building expertise networks (Part 1)
Network is a word that is used a lot nowadays, but what is a network? For Sea Alarm, it is a group of organisations and/or individuals with a common interest working together. We have a strong belief that by cooperating and striving towards common goals, a well-coordinated network can grow to be stronger than the sum of its parts (in other words, its individual members).
HELCOM Response makes progress on oiled wildlife response
In February 2020, Sea Alarm’s Hugo Nijkamp attended the 27th HELCOM Response meeting in Vejle, Denmark where the integration of all aspects of at sea response, shoreline response and wildlife response was a key topic.