With a new political agreement on a marine nature fund, 500 million kroner will be allocated for the restoration of Danish marine nature up to 2030. The government has entered into the agreement with the Danish Social Democrats, the Socialist Party, the Unity List and the Conservatives. This is according to Environment Minister Magnus Heunicke (S), who will present the agreement at the Ministry of the Environment on Thursday.
The agreement states that the Danish sea area must be mapped, and that Taarbek Reef in Øresund and the stone reef in the Great Belt must be restored. These are efforts that money will be spent on as early as 2024. Magnus Heunicke says at a press conference about the agreement that the habitats in the sea must be restored, and many more areas must be protected.
- This is going to make a difference. We are stopping decades of destruction.
Magnus Heunicke is asked why it has taken so long for something to happen now:
- Many things must happen at the same time. We must look ahead and see how we can do better than what has gone wrong in the last 20-30 years. It must never happen again that we have to go that far before things are fixed.
A "catalogue of measures" must also be prepared with the latest knowledge on maritime nature restoration. And then "digital infrastructure for marine environmental data and analysis of cumulative impacts on the ecosystem" must be developed.
Marine Fund receives half a billion DKK.
Earlier this year, it was agreed to use half a billion DKK from the Green Fund for a marine nature fund. So that's who has now reached an agreement on the arrangement of.
In recent years, it has been described how the Danish seas are in poor condition and have a high level of oxygen depletion. In September last year, the worst oxygen depletion in two decades was reported. The oxygen depletion has consequences for animal and plant life. For example, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has assessed that oxygen depletion in June was responsible for dead fish and lobsters in the Limfjord.
Environment Minister Magnus Heunicke (S) has been criticized for his efforts in the area by several parties. Now he and a number of parties are ready with money. Heunicke does not comment in the press release. But he has repeatedly promised that new measures would be taken to improve the marine environment.
In 2023, when the negative figures on the level of oxygen depletion came to light, he called it "alarming".
- These are alarming conditions, and as Minister of the Environment, it is my main task to correct them. The aquatic environment will not be saved from one day to the next. It takes time, he said at the time in a press release from the Ministry of the Environment.
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