http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2010/07/17/first-comprehensive-genetic-study-of-the-mediterranean-monk-seal-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/ Dedicated to Monk Seals and their Threatened Habitats Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:09:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2010/07/17/first-comprehensive-genetic-study-of-the-mediterranean-monk-seal-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/#comment-381 David Mitchell Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:08:52 +0000 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=811#comment-381 Agreed. TMG shouldn't really be reporting these fallacies as though they were the gospel scientific truth. This expensive exercise will not end up helping one single seal, or prevent one single death. If it's for scientific curiosity, OK, admit it, but don't pretend it's got anything to do with conservation. Agreed. TMG shouldn’t really be reporting these fallacies as though they were the gospel scientific truth. This expensive exercise will not end up helping one single seal, or prevent one single death. If it’s for scientific curiosity, OK, admit it, but don’t pretend it’s got anything to do with conservation.

]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2010/07/17/first-comprehensive-genetic-study-of-the-mediterranean-monk-seal-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/#comment-365 J.J. Wilcox Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:47:41 +0000 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=811#comment-365 The Hellenic Society for the Study & Protection of the Monk Seal (MOm) has been in existence how long — since 1988 or something. Makes you wonder what they have been doing during those 20 years if, as Alexandros Karamanlidis asserts, conservation is being hampered by a "substantial lack of information on the animals’  biology". Quite apart from that, are we really supposed to believe genetic studies will have any bearing whatever on the main threats to the species? — shooting by fishermen, drowning in nets, loss of habitat? If the clock is ticking on the survival of the species, why not spend the money and effort on something demonstrably useful? The Hellenic Society for the Study & Protection of the Monk Seal (MOm) has been in existence how long — since 1988 or something. Makes you wonder what they have been doing during those 20 years if, as Alexandros Karamanlidis asserts, conservation is being hampered by a “substantial lack of information on the animals’  biology”. Quite apart from that, are we really supposed to believe genetic studies will have any bearing whatever on the main threats to the species? — shooting by fishermen, drowning in nets, loss of habitat? If the clock is ticking on the survival of the species, why not spend the money and effort on something demonstrably useful?

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