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Hope for the North Sea: Major restoration project launched

February 28, 2025

Dogger Bank, a large, submerged sandbank in the North Sea and a vital marine ecosystem around 100 kilometres off the east coast of England, is home to a variety of species. Spanning around 2.5 million hectares across Dutch, German, Danish, and the UK waters, it was once part of a large sandmass that connected mainland Europe and the British Isles during the last ice age. The Dogger Bank has now become a wildlife haven for myriad species that thrive in and around the sandy sediment, functions as a nursery for sharks, rays, herring and cod and forms a rich feeding ground for whales, seals and seabirds.

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