swedish society for nature conservation

2008 – the year of the cod

Charlie Wijnbladh

2007-03-08Kansliet 2

What is the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation?

• Founded in 1909

• 178 000 members

• 269 local branches

• 22 regions, some with

employed people

• Networks for priority areas

• Central office with 75

employees


SSNC priority areas

•Forests in the North and the South

•Agriculture and food supply

•Climate change

•Hazardous substances in society and nature

•Marine eco-systems and fishery

Marine Network

• Part-time co-ordinator

• Active and generally interested people from all Sweden

• Financed mainly by SSNC

• Information campaigns 2004 and 2005

• Seminars, e.g. tomorrow in Umeå


Activities in the past

• General campaigns 2004, 2005 for the Baltic

• Campaign focused on phosphates in detergents in 2006

• Lobbying for limitations of cod fishing towards

– Swedish government

• Prime minister

• Agricultural minister

– The public

– Danish government together with Danish Society for Nature Conservation

• Seminars

• Support of FISH and CCB


Future activities

• Continued lobbying(Ministers, Swedish Board of Fisheries, Swedish Fishermen’s

Association etc, esp. in 2009)

(regarding limitations according to ICES recommendations, fishing

tackle, marine reserves etc)

• Consumerism campaign (Investigation of supermarkets and fishmonger´s by the Marine

Network)

• School project (mainly for children 8 – 12)

• Follow-up of projects (”Depletion/thinning of the population of sprats”, North Stream, Oil

exploration in the Baltic etc.)


School project

• The history of the Baltic

• What does brackish water mean

• What fish and other organisms thrive in the Baltic

• Aliens

• Threats

• Dissection of various fishes



Study

www.naturskyddsforeningen.se

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