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Heike Vesper (born 1970) is a German biologist and is the director of the marine program at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Germany. She is committed to conservation of endangered marine species and reducing the use of plastic packaging.
"Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation"
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"WWF Blog – Heike Vesper"
/ref> She has worked with WWF Germany since 1999 and became the director of the International WWF Centre of Marine Conservation in Hamburg, Germany, in 2011. She has also served as the chairwoman of the board of directors of The Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation (baltcf) between 2014 and 2018. She was succeeded by Alfred Schumm after she stepped down as board member and chair. In her capacity as a marine conservation expert, Vesper has advocated the conservation of overexploited marine species and the reduced use of plastic. In 2015, Vesper, along with Dr. Monica Verbeek (executive director of Seas at Risk) and Francisco J. Marí (Brot für die Welt), wrote a joint document,"Healthy Oceans are our Future", which outlined ocean proposals to the G7. She has spoken at the Digital Life Design Conference (2019), the Fashionsustain conference (2019), BMBF Forum for Sustainability (2017). In December 2018, she was featured in the Valeur Magazine issue 29, aimed at highlighting the stories of heroines of everyday life. On several occasions, Vesper has called for more action by the European Union in tackling the issue of plastic pollution in the ocean and has called for a ""WWF report: Record levels of microplastic in the Mediterranean"
"barfi.ch", 6/8/18 Vesper is a contributing writer on the blog of WWF Germany.
Heike Vesper (born 1970) is a German biologist and is the director of the marine program at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Germany. She is committed to conservation of endangered marine species and reducing the use of plastic packaging.
Life
Vesper studied biology with a focus onmarine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies s ...
and ecology in Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
, Germany, with stations in Amsterdam and Jordan.Peter Torkler"Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation"
/ref> Heike Vespe
"WWF Blog – Heike Vesper"
/ref> She has worked with WWF Germany since 1999 and became the director of the International WWF Centre of Marine Conservation in Hamburg, Germany, in 2011. She has also served as the chairwoman of the board of directors of The Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation (baltcf) between 2014 and 2018. She was succeeded by Alfred Schumm after she stepped down as board member and chair. In her capacity as a marine conservation expert, Vesper has advocated the conservation of overexploited marine species and the reduced use of plastic. In 2015, Vesper, along with Dr. Monica Verbeek (executive director of Seas at Risk) and Francisco J. Marí (Brot für die Welt), wrote a joint document,"Healthy Oceans are our Future", which outlined ocean proposals to the G7. She has spoken at the Digital Life Design Conference (2019), the Fashionsustain conference (2019), BMBF Forum for Sustainability (2017). In December 2018, she was featured in the Valeur Magazine issue 29, aimed at highlighting the stories of heroines of everyday life. On several occasions, Vesper has called for more action by the European Union in tackling the issue of plastic pollution in the ocean and has called for a "
Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement (french: Accord de Paris), often referred to as the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords, is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, Climate change a ...
for the Ocean" to combat ocean pollution."barfi.ch", 6/8/18
References
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