2001 Esbjerg Declaration: Ministerial Declaration of the 9th Trilateral Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea

The 9th Wadden Sea Conference was held under the chairmanship of the Danish Minister for the Environment and Energy Mr Svend Auken in Esbjerg, Denmark, on 31 October 2001. The theme for the conference was “Man and the Wadden Sea” beautifully portrayed in a painting by a school class at a primary school in Esbjerg, which became the official poster of the event.  Accordingly,  people’s  relationship with the  Wadden  Sea  was at the  heart of the conference.