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‘Hello there water, tell me. How are you feeling?
Interview Christiane Bosman Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025 Try to imagine what it feels, smells, sounds and looks like when two or more rivers flowing through a landscape meet, combine and continue onwards as a single body, until they come across a new water body and the process repeats itself. A term widely used …
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Dogger Bank Coalition Inaugural Meeting
At the heart of the North Sea lies an underwater sandbank: the Dogger Bank. This breeding ground of the North Sea is a unique Natura 2000 area with high biodiversity, despite its severely degraded state. Over the next three years, a broad coalition—led by the Embassy of the North Sea and the Doggerland Foundation—will work …
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Third Confluence of European Water Bodies in The Netherlands
Robert Macfarlane opens third Confluence in Amsterdam The third edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place in the Netherlands, from 21 – 24 September 2025. Famous author Robert Macfarlane will open the Confluence, Sunday afternoon September 21 2025 in De Balie Amsterdam, with a talk about his new book Is A River Alive? The afternoon will …
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Embassy of the North Sea partner in extensive international rewilding programme
With great enthusiasm and pride, we are launching the new Rewilding Dogger Bank programme with an international coalition led by Doggerland Foundation. This large-scale initiative, aimed at rewilding the nature reserve, has received a conditional commitment of funding from the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme. The Dogger Bank initiative is one of seven marine nature …
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Publication Dogger Bank manifest
Safeguard the minimum standards of conservation, better representation, higher ambition The Embassy of the North Sea and Doggerland Foundation advocate a better position for the North Sea in the legal, public and political domain. On 13 February 2025, we published the manifest Making Room for the Dogger Bank. With a broad international coalition of knowledge …
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Diplomatic Suitcase at MAC Lisbon
A new chapter for our Diplomatic Suitcasein Lisbon From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass …
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Looking back a the Assembly Whose Ocean?
January 30 2025, we collectively rewrote, with over 230 participants, the UN political declaration ‘Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility’ from the perspective of seagulls, jellyfish and polymetallic nodules. After presentations by scientists about these entities, we split up in three groups to start negotiating the chosen texts from a non human perspective. Not an easy …
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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
Modes of activism for nature protection From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists …
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Join us at the Whose Ocean? Assembly!
Whose Ocean? Assembly The ocean is vital for life on earth and climate, yet its voice is rarely heard in law and political decision-making. It is completely unclear who is meant when bodies like the UN speak of ‘our oceans’. It is also uncertain who has the right to lay claim to the ocean or …
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Online water bodies press confluence
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024 from 10:00 – 11:15. This online session will give insight in the foundation, aims, visions and methods of the Confluence of European Water Bodies and offers press and researchers the opportunity to ask questions. Several European water bodies will be …
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