BASRAN
Action Committees
To raise actions around the Baltic Sea among Rotary Districts and Clubs.
To join a Committee you are interested in, please send an email to the Chair of that Committee!
Awareness Raising and Environmental Education
Among Rotarians as well as other people, schoolchildren etc. For instance, integration between ports, incl. Briggen Tre Kronor visits. Or how to promote our local water protection plans (lakes, rivers, ponds etc.)
Chair: To-be-nominated
Email: basran.mail (at) gmail.com
The BASRAN Webinar Baltic Sea Awareness raising and Environmental Education, October 7, 2023
Eutrophication follow-up and reducing excessive runoff
For instance, wetlands, wastewater management, in agriculture: intensifying nutrient recycling, fertilising according to the needs of the plants, utilising livestock manure as fertiliser, and fixing the nutrients in the soil with gypsum.
Eutrophication is still the major and increasing problem in the Baltic Sea
Chair: To-be-named
Email: basran.mail (at) gmail.com
BASRAN Webinar Wetlands and the Baltic Sea Environment, March 5, 2022
Beach cleaning and macro and micro plastic
Littering is a huge global problem that threatens human health and safety and has ecological and socioeconomic costs. Microplastics are found in all waters, animals, human bodies, even the placenta.
Chair: To-be-nominated
Email: basran.mail (at) gmail.com
BASRAN Webinar Littering in the Baltic Sea and its Shores, October 1, 2022
Raising awareness in a positive way (also lobby EU for action). The pre-war wrecks resting on the bottom of the Baltic Sea still contain harmful substances such as oil-based fuels and lubricants as well as toxic substances. Explosives in ammunition and chemical weapons dumped in the sea pose a growing threat to the sensitive environment of the Baltic Sea.
Chair: Mark Krawczynski, Rotary Club Warszawa City, Poland, D2231, Zone 18.
Email: mark.krawczynski@gmail.com
BASRAN Webinar Dangerous Substances in the Deep, March 11, 2023.
The impact of industrial fishing on the Baltic Sea ecosystem
It is a huge challenge to transform the most polluted inland sea in the world to a healthy environment. The ecosystem of the Baltic Sea is reaching a tipping point and among other issues the collapse of the food chain may soon become irreparable. The disappearance of cod which we have already seen, may be the fate for other fish including native pike and perch threatened by the spread of the stickleback.
Chair: Eva Nisser, Nacka Rotary Klubb, Sweden, D2370,
Email: nisser@veraciter.se
BASRAN Webinar The impact of industrial fishing on the Baltic Sea ecosystem, March 23, 2024
How do the Action Committees work?
We suggest 4-6 persons per committee. Each group will elect its Spokesperson. Action Committees should have members from a few of our member countries around the Baltic Sea. Committees can have their own online meetings and in-person meetings whenever needed. Committees would report at our Board Meetings and/or Member Meetings.