For a living & sustainable Baltic coast

For decades, many coastal strips along the former socialist countries were completely or partly closed to public access. Not only did these strips demark national borders, but even constituted a barrier seperating two systems. This former seperative line formed the basis for the Baltic Green Belt.

Similar to the terrestrial border strips, these areas preserved vast, almost pristine stretches of coastland. Some of them were successfully designated as nature reserves or national parks after the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, many pearls of nature up to now grace the water line both above and below the water surface largely undiscovered, unrecognised and unprotected. Sea weed forests and sea gras meadows, bogs and beach walls, lagoons, bays and many other submarine and terrestrial paradises are typical of the Green Belt along the Baltic.

The conservation and sustainable development of these habitats will be persued within the Baltic Sea Region Programme project Baltic Green Belt.