May and June 2026 were busy months for Sea Alarm, contributing to three important events focused on strengthening preparedness for oiled wildlife response. From the remote islands of Shetland to the Baltic Sea region and Germany's coastal federal states, Sea…
At the beginning of 2025, a new EU funded project was launched called European Oiled Wildlife response Life-long learning Development (EUROWILD). To start off the new year, we want to look back at the main successes over the last year and look forward…
At the latest International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) Funds meeting held in London from 4 – 7 November, the decision was taken to extend the Observership of Sea Alarm, as well as all other international NGOs. The Status gets reviewed…
Last week, Sea Alarm was represented by Daniela Barreras-Biesot and Edel Shanahan at the Effects of Oil on Wildlife Conference (EOW) in Cape Town where they successfully gave several presentations and participated in one of the main plenary sessions. We…
Hugo Nijkamp, the General Manager of Sea Alarm, was recently interviewed by Paul Kelway, the Wildlife Preparedness & Response Manager at Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) in celebration of 20 years of collaboration together. Over the years, the joint work…
Sea Alarm was proud to be recognised with a special award from Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) during the 2025 Interspill Conference in London, celebrating 20 years of successful collaboration. This milestone award highlights two decades of partnership dedicated to…
Recently, Sea Alarm attended meetings organised by the Bonn Agreement, the Regional Seas Agreement for the North Sea, and the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) to present our latest relevant updates. At the first…
The Helsinki Convention, the Regional Agreement for the Baltic Sea, has recently published the ‘Report on wildlife response activities and preparedness by the HELCOM Expert Group on Wildlife Response’. The report, co-authored by Sea Alarm and the HELCOM Secretariat, is…
Sea Alarm facilitated a groundbreaking two-day OneX serious game event at the IPIECA headquarters in London on January 13-14. The workshop, organised by the UK and Eire Spill Association in collaboration with IPIECA, addressed the challenges posed by shipping incidents involving new and alternative…
Sea Alarm took part in the design and management of the recent field exercise by the Dutch authorities in the Wadden Island of Schiermonnikoog which focused on integrating volunteers into an authority-led response. The exercise emphasised the value of such…
The Sea Alarm team was saddened to hear that Chris Morris recently passed away. Chris was an important ally for Sea Alarm for many years. He joined the Sea Alarm board in July 2008, being elected as Vice-chair in 2010…
Last week, the Sea Alarm team ran its first WildX tabletop and serious game training session with members of an oil company emergency response team. The WildX package allowed the participants to explore various realistic response challenges and discuss operational…