Monk seal in Turkey
Some 100 Mediterranean monk seals survive in Turkish waters. Monk seal Guardian
WWF news report on fishermen becoming guardians of the Mediterranean monk seal in Turkey
Thanks to overfishing by industrial fishing boats, Turkey’s Mediterranean monk seals are going hungry and local fishermen are struggling to make a living. Competing for the same limited food supply, the seals are most often the losers.
But in two places on the Mediterranean – the outer Gulf of Izmir and the Cilician Basin – the fishermen have become guardians of the monk seals. And in doing so, they are bringing back the fish and improving their own livelihoods.
Monk seal deaths in the Turkish Aegean
Two monk seal deaths were reported in April and May 2010 via the AFBIKA information network of SAD-AFAG.
In the first case on 21 April 2010, local residents in a summer house complex observed a dead seal floating in the sea in the Yal?kavak K?z?lburun region of the Bodrum Peninsula and on their own initiative pulled the corpse to shore. They immediately contacted Yal?kavak Municipality and the SAD-AFAG representative veterinarian Dr. Fulya Massozi.
Following an initial examination on site by Dr. Massozi and municipality officials, the corpse was transported to the Yal?kavak veterinary clinic for further examination.
The resulting necropsy determined that the seal had been shot three times in the right shoulder; four ribs and the right shoulder blade had been broken, with a significant amount of blood accumulating in the chest cavity. Internal bleeding was found to be the cause of death. One rifle bullet and several small calibre pellets were discovered in internal organs.
Wildlife and nature guides to the world
- Watching wildlife in August
- Watching wildlife in December
- Watching wildlife in July
- Watching wildlife in June
- Watching wildlife in May
- Watching wildlife in November
- Watching wildlife in October
- Watching wildlife in September
- Wildlife watching in April
- Wildlife watching in February
- Wildlife watching in January
- Wildlife watching in March
- Wildlife of Albania
- Wildlife of Algeria
- Wildlife of Angola
- Wildlife of Antarctica
- Wildlife of Antigua
- Wildlife of Armenia
- Wildlife of Australia
- Wildlife of Australia
- Wildlife of Austria
- Wildlife of Bahrain
- Wildlife of Bangladesh
- Wildlife of Belarus
- Wildlife of Belgium
- Wildlife of Belize
- Wildlife of Bhutan
- Wildlife of Borneo
- Wildlife of Bosnia
- Wildlife of Botswana
- Wildlife of Brazil
- Wildlife of Bulgaria
- Wildlife of Burma
- Wildlife of Burundi
- Wildlife of Cambodia
- Wildlife of Cameroon
- Wildlife of Canada
- Wildlife of Chad
- Wildlife of China
- Wildlife of Congo
- Wildlife of Croatia
- Wildlife of Cyprus
- Wildlife of Denmark
- Wildlife of Ecuador
- Wildlife of Egypt
- Wildlife of Eritrea
- Wildlife of Estonia
- Wildlife of Ethiopia
- Wildlife of Fiji
- Wildlife of Finland
- Wildlife of France
- Wildlife of Gabon
- Wildlife of Gambia
- Wildlife of Germany
- Wildlife of Ghana
- Wildlife of Greece
- Wildlife of Guatamala
- Wildlife of Guinea
- Wildlife of Guyana
- Wildlife of Haiti
- Wildlife of Holland
- Wildlife of Hungary
- Wildlife of Iceland
- Wildlife of India
- Wildlife of Indonesia
- Wildlife of Iran
- Wildlife of Iraq
- Wildlife of Ireland
- Wildlife of Italy
- Wildlife of Japan
- Wildlife of Jordan
- Wildlife of Kenya
- Wildlife of Laos
- Wildlife of Latvia
- Wildlife of Liberia
- Wildlife of Lithuania
- Wildlife of Macedonia
- Wildlife of Madagascar
- Wildlife of Malawi
- Wildlife of Malaysia
- Wildlife of Malta
- Wildlife of Mexico
- Wildlife of Mongolia
- Wildlife of Montenegro
- Wildlife of Morocco
- Wildlife of Mozambique
- Wildlife of Namibia
- Wildlife of Nepal
- Wildlife of Niger
- Wildlife of Nigeria
- Wildlife of Norway
- Wildlife of Oman
- Wildlife of Pakistan
- Wildlife of Palestine
- Wildlife of Panama
- Wildlife of Papua New Guinea
- Wildlife of Peru
- Wildlife of Philippines
- Wildlife of Poland
- Wildlife of Portugal
- Wildlife of Romania
- Wildlife of Russia
- Wildlife of Saudi Arabia
- Wildlife of Senegal
- Wildlife of Serbia
- Wildlife of Slovakia
- Wildlife of Slovenia
- Wildlife of South Africa
- Wildlife of South Korea
- Wildlife of Sri Lanka
- Wildlife of Sudan
- Wildlife of Sweden
- Wildlife of Switzerland
- Wildlife of Syria
- Wildlife of Tajikistan
- Wildlife of Tanzania
- Wildlife of Thailand
- Wildlife of the Arctic
- Wildlife of the Balkans
- Wildlife of the Baltic
- Wildlife of the Czech Republic
- Wildlife of the Falklands
- Wildlife of the Faroe Islands
- Wildlife of the Himalayas
- Wildlife of the Maldives
- Wildlife of the Mediterranean
- Wildlife of the Middle East
- Wildlife of the United Arab Emirates
- Wildlife of the US
- Wildlife of Turkey
- Wildlife of Turkmenistan
- Wildlife of Uganda
- Wildlife of Ukraine
- Wildlife of Vietnam
- Wildlife of Yemen
- Wildlife of Zambia
- Wildlife of Zimbabwe
