Programm 20.03.2019

Seminar:

As the sturgeon swims - enhancing connectivity and ecological effectiveness of European policies from freshwater to marine exosystems

The dramatic decline of sturgeons in the last decades has become an issue of basin-wide importance in the Danube River getting attention of several countries and the European Commission. As their life cycle covers inland waters, estuaries as well as marine waters, they are the perfect symbol to underline the need of transdisciplinary and international cooperation to recuperate healthy ecosystems and highlight the overall decline of aquatic biodiversity. Closely linked to these changes in ecosystem health is the potential to provide ecosystem services and achieving the SDGs. This seminar will provide insights what Europe can learn from the showcase of the sturgeons in the Danube Basin and how the SDGs can support the implementation of cross-cutting issues to leave no-one behind.

Key notes:
•    “The EU Biodiversity Strategy – creating a Green and Blue Infrastructure for healthy sturgeon ecosystems”
        Laure Ledoux, DG ENV / Deputy Head Biodiversity Unit
•    “Status and future challenges for aquatic biodiversity conservation - the example of European Sturgeons”
       Thomas Friedrich, Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas Hein, BOKU
•    "How achieving SDG targets helps protecting species and conserving aquatic biodiversity"
       PD Dr. DI Günter Langergraber, BOKU
 

15:00 - 17:00, Permanent representation of Austria to the European Union, Ave. de Cortenbergh 30

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