details
- Name
- Nationalparkverwaltung Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer (NLPV)
- Native name
- Nationalparkverwaltung Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer
- Address
- Virchowstraße 1
- Zipcode
- 26382
- City
- Wilhelmshaven
- Country
- Germany
- Centre Website
- https://www.nationalpark-wattenmeer.de/nds/overview-english
organisation profile
The Wadden Sea is of great importance as:
* A habitat for seals
* A central stopping place in the eastern Atlantic for migrating birds. Only here in the Wadden Sea can the migrant birds find sufficient nourishment to build up their reserves for the annual flights of thousands of kilometres between their breeding grounds in the north and their winter homes in the south.
* Breeding and moulting grounds for waders and waterfowl
* Wintering grounds for Brent Geese
* A nursery for North Sea fish
* The "larder” of the North Sea. (Micro-organisms use the nutrients and serve as food for larger animals).
* A habitat for plants which have adapted to the effects of salt, wind, flooding or being covered by sand (eg seaweed, Salicornia, Sea Aster and beach grass).
* A home to the people living and working here for centuries
* A recreation area for hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers.
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edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 3459
- Collating centre
- German Oceanographic Datacentre (DOD)
- Latest update
- 25 March 2014 1:27:35 PM