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Why is it important?
The Wadden Sea National Park Administrations have ask the German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure to change the current Act on the Use of Federal Waterways in National Parks of the North Sea.
The change will lead to a general ban on kitesurfing in the 345.000 hectare large National Park.
Experiences with similar regulations in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea Act have shown: The possibilities for kite surfers to use the sea is almost completely lost. As for the Act in Lower Saxony only 0,38% of the Wadden Sea area were zoned for kitesurfing and every year the area is reduced by further bans of the National Park Administration.
According to the National Park administration, more bans are planned for the Baltic Sea area.
With this general ban the sport of kitesurfing will be severely hurt. A sport with countless active athletes around the globe, a world series, european and national championships and the chance of becoming an olympic sport by 2017, and thus, being an excitement for countless people.
Furthermore, through the ban on kitesurfing on the German North Sea Coast many jobs in tourism and the kitesurfing industry will be endangered.
Hence, our petition to the German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure:
No adoption of regulation concerning kite sports in the North Sea Wadden Sea area.
In support of our petition to save the Kite Sport at our coasts we petition the Minister:
Save the kite spots!
No general ban on exercising the Kite Sport in the German Wadden Sea.
Handing in this petition several Kite Clubs joint together in order to to mutually support the sport.
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