TALLINN, Aug 27, BNS – In its recent report the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has commended Estonia as the Baltic Sea country which has the most contracted maritime pollution.
In a comparison of nine Baltic Sea countries Estonia has the most contracted the effect of harmful substances to the Baltic Sea environment, it appears from the WWF report released Wednesday in Stockholm.
In a comparison between the nine Baltic Sea countries protection of the marine enviromnment is at the highest level in Germany, followed by Denmark and Estonia.
WWF compared Baltic Sea countries in different spheres of the protection of the Baltic Sea marine enviromnment such as biodiversity, fishery, harmful substances and maritime transport. The organization also assessed how management of the sea has been organized in the countries.
The WWF report brought into positive relief Latvia and Lithuania for fighting illegal fishing as both the countries recently gave environmental inspectors the right to punish those caught poaching on the spot.
Mats Abrahamsson, director of the WWF Baltic Sea region, said that it was shameful for countries to be satisfied with less than the maximum in the protection of the marine environment.
He said that protection of the Baltic Sea needed political leadership that could see above national and different sectors’ interests and would approach the solution of problems in wider terms than it has been done until the present.
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