The Monachus Guardian 8 (2): December 2005. The Internet journal dedicated to the Mediterranean, Hawaiian and Caribbean monk seals, Monachus monachus, Monachus schauinslandi, Monachus tropicalis


Vol. 8 / No. 2	Published by Friends of the Monk Seal	December 2005

– including: UN meetings in Athens and Slovenia hear of the monk seal’s imminent extinction – Ministers adopt monk seal declaration

– including:

• Croatia
Back from the dead?

• Greece
Understanding fisheries: a new conservation initiative for the monk seal in Greece

• Italy
Summer sightings at Orosei

• Madeira
New Ranger’s Station opens on the Desertas

• Mauritania & Western Sahara
Pupping season on the “Coast of the Seals”

• Turkey
Seal Rescue Network continues build-up

• Recent sightings of the monk seal in Croatian areas of the Adriatic, by Martina Duras Gomercic, Tomislav Gomercic, Duro Huber and Hrvoje Gomercic

– including: The National Marine Rubbish Tip of Zakynthos, by Claudio Groff, with a reply by Demetres Karavellas, Director of WWF Greece

Greece: Can fishermen find a way to live peaceably with the monk seal?

Madeira: Making monk seal conservation a serious business.

Croatia: Is the monk seal returning to the Adriatic?

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