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: Gintarė Šešplaukė, Klaipeda "Old Town" RAC, Lithuania, D1462

Email: g.sesplauke@yahoo.com 


The next 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: Annastina Sarlin, Nagu rotaryklubb, Finland, D1410 

Email: annasarlin@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: Kirsten Weisz, Stege Rotary Klub, Denmark D1470,

Email: weiszlp@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 impacts of industrial fishing on the Baltic 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


Coming: BASRAN Webinar 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.