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Possible national parks in Denmark
Seven areas in Denmark have now been designated as pilot projects for investigating whether na-tional parks can be established according to a Danish model. The seven projects run until July 2005 and will gather experience on how national parks can best be established in accordance with local participation and how the nature and leisure activities can best be allowed to develop its potential while concomitantly taking industry and tourism into consideration. Thereafter a decision will be made as to whether to establish national parks in Denmark and what model they should follow.
The seven areas are: Læsø, Lille Vildmose, Thy, Mols Bjerge, Wadden Sea, Møn and Kongernes Nordsjælland (Gribskov forest and lake Esrum).
Further information: Jakob Harrekilde Jensen, Danish Forest and Nature Agency. Phone: +45 3947 2160. E-mail: har@sns.dk.
See also: http://www.sns.dk/nationalparker/english.htm
Seminar on Hazardous Substances, St. Petersburg, 22-23 March 2004
The HELCOM Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area has prepared a strategy to limit discharges of hazardous substances, and a working group has identified hazardous substances and prepared guidance documents on the management etc. of a number of substances. Part of this work was presented at a seminar in St. Petersburg on 22-23 March. See outcome of the seminar on the HELCOM website.
Further information: Torben Wallach, Danish EPA. Phone: +45 3266 0506. E-mail: tw@mst.dk.
HELCOM recommendation 19/5 http://www.helcom.fi/recommendations/rec19_5.html
Report from the working group: http://www.helcom.fi/land/Hazardous/finalreport.pdf
Guidance documents on individual substances: http://www.helcom.fi
Seminar programme and outcome: http://www.helcom.fi/helcom/news/350.html
Monitoring of Danish Orchids on the internet
The programme “Monitoring of Danish Orchids” was initiated in 1987. During the lifetime of the programme approx. 300 orchid populations have been monitored. Most populations have been monitored continuously. In some instances monitoring has ended because of disappearance of the sites due to natural soil erosion, recovery of the field marks was impossible, or the species in question has moved outside the sample area. A population may also disappear due to human impact e.g. digging. The survey of orchids comprises 45 wild Danish orchids of which six are considered subspecies or variants. Three of the 39 species have become regionally extinct: Frog orchid (Coeloglossum viride), Autumn lady's tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) and Military orchid (Orchis militaris).
Further information: Peter Wind, NERI. Phone +45 8920 1700. E-mail: pw@dmu.dk.
See background and results of the monitoring at:
http://www.dmu.dk/1_Om_DMU/2_Tvaer-funk/3_fdc_bio/datasamlinger/orkide/index_en.asp
Growth in Greenland mineral exploration
The Minex no. 25, December 2003 newsletter is focusing on mineral exploration activities in Greenland in 2003.
Newsletter headlines:
- 2003 – a year with growth in exploration and a gold mine to start
- Company New Years statements point to increased activity in 2004
- Diamond exploration boosted by BMP and GEUS
- The mineral hunt 2003 winners are picked – Gold is in the lead
- BMP Annual Report 2002 with a new look – now released as hard copy and on-line
- New issues of Greenland Mineral Resources Fact Sheet
- Mineral Exploration Roundup 2004 Trade Show – Greenland welcomes visitors
Further information: Karsten Secher, GEUS. Phone: +45 3814 2236. E-mail: kse@geus.dk
Read newsletter: http://www.geus.dk/minex/minex-25-uk.htm
Greenland mineral resources fact sheets
Two new fact sheets in the series Greenland Mineral Resources are now available from the Geo-logical Survey of Denmark and Greenland. The fact sheets are focusing on two presently hot topics in Greenland exploration – gold and diamonds.
Read fact sheets here:
Gold in the Nuuk region of West Greenland. Fact sheet no. 6
http://www.geus.dk/minex/go_fs06-uk.html
Diamond exploration in Greenland. Fact sheet no. 7
http://www.geus.dk/minex/go_fs07-uk.html
Further information: Karsten Secher, GEUS. Phone: +45 3814 2236. E-mail: kse@geus.dk
Excursion offer for oil and water people
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland offers an excursion for reservoir geologists or man-agers within the oil and water branches to a location with a spectacular example of a wave-dominated delta in central Jutland, Denmark. Learn about:
- Reservoir prediction in wave-dominated deltas.
- Principles of classic sequence stratigraphy.
- Prediction of porous reservoir rocks.
- Detailed history of the structural evolution of the North Sea.
- Re-suspension and sorting of clay minerals and consequences for the overpressure zone in the Central Graben.
- Timing of tilting of the North Sea Basin - burial history and migration of hydrocarbons.
Further information: Erik Skovbjerg Rasmussen, GEUS. Phone: +45 3814 2504. E-mail: esr@geus.dk
Read about the excursion at:
http://www.geus.dk/geus-general/fact-sheets/fs-field-trips-denmark-uk.htm
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