Sentences with phrase «as the monk seal»
That understanding is helping government and private conservation groups develop monitoring and management plans to help protect not only endangered species, such as the monk seal, but all at - risk marine mammals.»
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With the Caribbean species now extinct, the Hawaiian monk seal is the last surviving species of the genus Neomonachus, as the Mediterranean species is in its genus, Monachus.
This shows the recently extinct Caribbean monk seal, now classified as Neomonachus tropicalis.
The diseases are flushed out to the sea in kitty litter and other sewage, harming marine mammals such as dolphins, beluga whales, monk seals and sea otters.
As early as 1976, the Hawaiian monk seal was listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species AcAs early as 1976, the Hawaiian monk seal was listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Acas 1976, the Hawaiian monk seal was listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Acas endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
The establishment of the new national monument is key to saving the monk seals, as habitat loss is currently their chief threat, given that hunting is no longer allowed.
As the alleged evidence that feral cats are a major threat to wild bird populations evaporates, ailurophobes have amplified claims that free - roaming cats are to blame for outbreaks of the parasitic protozoan infection Toxoplasma gondii that were first found to afflict California sea otters in 2002,» causing about 17 % of identified deaths, and have killed at least eight Hawaiian monk seals in 2015 alone.
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Endangered Hawaiian monk seals like to nap on this beach too (as do we)-- to see monk seals is one of the reasons to visit or revisit Kauai (which offers a Monk Seal Education Program).
Endangered monk seals occasionally haul themselves out on the sand, and like the happy beachgoers, soak up the sun as cooling trade winds blow.
One of only two mammals endemic to Hawaii (the second being the Hawaiian bat), the Hawaiian monk seal is often referred to as a «living fossil.»
In summertime don't be surprised to see a monk - seal mom and her pup on the beach here; the seals seem to like this beach as much as the visitors.
Dr. Simeone also serves as the Hospital Director of Ke Kai Ola, the Center's Hawaiian monk seal facility on the island of Hawai`i.
We've also recently installed new interpretative signage at Ke Kai Ola to educate visitors about the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals and the need for their conservation as well as what people can do to help them.
An integrated approach for assessing translocation as an effective conservation tool for Hawaiian monk seals.
Fish watchers can tally up to 200 species of reef fish found nowhere else, plus larger favorites such as turtles, spinner dolphins, manta rays, monk seals and the occasional shark.
Home to a high concentration of Hawaiian Green Sea turtles (honu), the area not far from Makena Landing is called «Turtle Town», where Dolphins, rays and the Hawaiian monk seal are commonly spotted as well.
This is just a quick note of farewell to the Caribbean monk seal, not seen since 1952 and given its formal designation as extinct by federal fisheries officials last Friday.
This sea has as well its own set of emblematic species of conservation concern, such as sea turtles, several cetaceans, and the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus).