The new exhibition in the Nordsee Aquarium opens the view to the species-rich sea areas Borkum Reef and Borkum Reef ground serves as a habitat, nursery, feeding ground, and wintering ground for many North Sea animals. She explains how these areas are mapped and managed. What role have reefs played in history? BorkumWhat efforts have been made so far to protect the reefs? What is the situation with the planned gas extraction? Borkum What about it? And what can environmental activism achieve?

Next Borkum There are rock reefs, oyster reefs and sandbanks like the Borkum Reef. Diverse and species-rich habitats, some of which are protected in nature reserves. How far the protection really goes, the threat to the nature of the reefs from the industrialization of the North Sea, especially from the planned gas extraction at Borkum Riffgrund, the fight of environmental organizations and the city Borkum against it and the threat to shipping in the past and today on Borkum Reef are themes of the exhibition.

Beauty and Danger

Many of the animals that Borkum Reef bottom, you can live in Nordsee Aquarium observe: lobsters, sea anemones, crabs, sea urchins and sea scorpions. Therefore, the Nordsee Aquarium Borkum This is exactly the right place to use the new exhibition to draw attention to the beauty and endangerment of the special habitat of the reefs off the island.

Visiting the exhibition is included in the entrance fee and is possible during normal opening hours.