The EUROWA Secretariat, Sea Alarm, is continuing its communication with the European Regional Agreements to integrate wildlife response into national emergency response systems and explain how EUROWA can provide assistance in case of an oil spill incident. European authorities are the main end users of the EUROWA networks’ expertise, so the…
Today, 28th of June, European Oiled Wildlife Assistance (EUROWA) launched their Proposal for the future of professional oiled wildlife response in Europe, calling on authorities to get better prepared for an oiled wildlife incident. The Proposal was launched to coincide with…
The future of professional oiled wildlife response in Europe. See full press release here.
BALEX DELTA is the largest annual transnational oil spill response exercise in the Baltic Sea region. This year, the exercise was held in Kotka, Finland from the 23rd-25th of August and led by the Finnish Border Guard. The exercise included…
We are delighted to announce that the Bonn Agreement has further cemented its commitment to oiled wildlife preparedness and response issues by granting observer status to the EUROWA network. This was approved at the Bonn Agreement meeting on 22-23rd September,…
The EUROWA-2 project is developing tools which will help governments develop their oiled wildlife preparedness through an integrated approach. Responding well to oiled wildlife incidents and other marine wildlife emergencies needs a multidisciplinary, integrated approach where key authorities operate jointly…
Authorities from the Baltic, North and Mediterranean Sea regions learned more about the EUROWA-2 project at their meetings during the first half of the year. Sea Alarm, as EUROWA Secretariat, represented EUROWA at these online meetings, the first of which…
On March 31st, Sascha Regmann, Vanessa Ryan and Agni Kaldma, representatives of the EUROWA Network, presented at a Baltic webinar ‘Oiled Wildlife Response – Methods and Opportunities’. The webinar was organised by the OIL SPILL Project, which is funded by…
Sea Alarm recently informed HELCOM RESPONSE, OTSOPA and the Meeting of REMPEC FOCAL POINTS about the EUROWA Module project and how it is envisaged that the Module will become part of the wider European oil spill preparedness systems. Sea Alarm attended…
The integration of oiled wildlife response into existing oil spill response and preparedness systems is taking shape in Europe. Regional Agreements such as HELCOM, the Bonn Agreement and the Barcelona Convention have recognized the need to integrate oiled wildlife response…