The last issue of TMG included a “photo quiz” promoted by the Italian Monk Seal Group – Gruppo Foca Monaca: the photo was one out of 41 shots taken by a tourist from a low cliff near the tower of Campese, on the north-western part of Giglio, and the marine Continue reading: About the monk seal photo taken at Giglio Island (Tuscan Archipelago) on 7 June 2009…]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/11/21/about-the-monk-seal-photo-taken-at-giglio-island-tuscan-archipelago-on-7-june-2009%e2%80%a6/feed/ 4 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/11/06/new-monk-seal-sightings-in-italy/ http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/11/06/new-monk-seal-sightings-in-italy/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:41:37 +0000 Editor http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=1999 — Luigi Guarrera – Gruppo Foca Monaca Italia

GFM – Gruppo Foca Monaca Italia reports two recent, confirmed monk seal sightings along the Italian coasts.

The first one took place in July in the same area where in 2002 a young monk seal was observed Continue reading: New monk seal sightings in Italy]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/11/06/new-monk-seal-sightings-in-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/07/11/monk-seal-filmed-at-cres-northern-adriatic/ http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/07/11/monk-seal-filmed-at-cres-northern-adriatic/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:07:16 +0000 Editor http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=1814 Croatian NGO Blue World has released footage of a Mediterranean monk seal filmed on 24 June around the island of Cres, in the Northern Adriatic (via the Italian OggiScienza TV magazine). Having studied the footage, Jasna Antolović of the Grupa Sredozemna Medvjedica has expressed the view that the seal might be a young female Continue reading: Monk seal filmed at Cres, Northern Adriatic]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/07/11/monk-seal-filmed-at-cres-northern-adriatic/feed/ 0 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/04/29/monk-seal-sightings-in-egypt/ http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/04/29/monk-seal-sightings-in-egypt/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:33:55 +0000 Editor http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=1631 — Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute, Milano, Italy

— Mahmoud Fouad, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, Cairo, Egypt

On 7 April, during a recent trip along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast to establish stakeholder contacts in implementing a National Action Plan Continue reading: Monk seal sightings in Egypt]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/04/29/monk-seal-sightings-in-egypt/feed/ 1 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/04/28/croatian-and-italian-groups-continue-joint-monitoring-at-kamenjak/ http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/04/28/croatian-and-italian-groups-continue-joint-monitoring-at-kamenjak/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:11:07 +0000 Editor http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=1642

Photo: Marko Jelic, GFM

Jasna Antolović reports that Croation and Italian groups (Grupa Sredozemna Medvjedica; Gruppo Foca Monaca) continue their regular monitoring of the Kamenjak peninsula (Pula), where sightings over recent years suggest that the species is attempting to reestablish itself after a long absence.

On 24 March, Continue reading: Croatian and Italian groups continue joint monitoring at Kamenjak]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2011/04/28/croatian-and-italian-groups-continue-joint-monitoring-at-kamenjak/feed/ 0 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2010/09/12/seal-sightings-in-lebanon/ http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2010/09/12/seal-sightings-in-lebanon/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:50:46 +0000 Editor http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=930 Simon Nadim, Managing Director of the Pure Tech Diving Facility in Batroun, Lebanon, has contacted TMG to report two separate sightings of a Mediterranean monk seal, on the 15.08.2010 and 04.09.2010 respectively.

The encounters both occurred whilst diving amongst caves in northern Lebanon and were recorded on video. The animal is reported to be Continue reading: Seal sightings in Lebanon]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2010/09/12/seal-sightings-in-lebanon/feed/ 0 http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2009/06/17/monk-seal-sighting-at-giglio-island/ http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2009/06/17/monk-seal-sighting-at-giglio-island/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:32:54 +0000 Editor http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/?p=314 by Luigi Bundone and Luigi Guarrera, Gruppo Foca Monaca

Last Sunday 7 June, in the waters of Giglio Island, Tuscan Archipelago, another individual was sighted not far from the tower of Giglio Campese. The encounter lasted for about two Continue reading: Monk seal sighting at Giglio Island]]> http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress/2009/06/17/monk-seal-sighting-at-giglio-island/feed/ 1