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Federal Environment Minister Lemke opens the traveling exhibition Sea.Nature.ProtectionFederal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke opened today in Berlin together with Dr. Alfred Herberg from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation BfN and the head of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research AWI Prof. Antje Boetius the BfN touring exhibition Sea.Nature.Protection. The exhibition in the courtyard of the Federal Ministry for the Environment Nature Conservation Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection BMUV shows species and habitats in the North Sea and Baltic Sea and how these can be protected or how extinct species such as the reef-building European oyster can be reintroduced. The exhibition will be open to the public on August 20th and 21st the day of the federal governments open house.Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke The climate crisis the extinction of species and the litter crisis are threatening the unique ecosystem of the sea. The North Sea and Baltic Sea are also used intensively and are not in a good condition. With a consistent marine protection policy the crises can be fought together and our seas better protection. Because the seas are also an indispensable basis of life for us humans. The federal government therefore also wants to start a maritime offensive and thus strengthen the marine protection areas in our North and Baltic Seas among other things.BfN department head Dr. Alfred Herberg With the Sea.Nature.Protection exhibition we want to make all citizens better acquainted with the native marine species and show what marine nature conservation off our coasts actually looks like. In the offshore area of the North Sea and Baltic Sea the BfN the responsible nature conservation authority and manages the marine protection areas with an area of 10000 square kilometers km 2 . What this work and our tasks for the protection of nature in the exclusive economic zone look like can be understood with the interactive exhibition.
