In a bid to protect the inhabitants of Mediterranean monk seals, a critically endangered animal added to the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, scientists have constructed a pure platform within the caves which monk seals inhabit in Turkey’s southern province of Muğla.
The monk seals want particularly untouched coasts and coastal caves with air and platforms for breeding. The animals use the coastal caves within the Aegean, Marmara and Mediterranean seas for breeding.
Muğla Province Environment and Urbanization Head Ömür Özdil mentioned they constructed particular platforms within the animals’ habitats to be certain that the seals have sufficient dry area in caves for breeding.
“Following our work, it was decided {that a} feminine Mediterranean monk seal used the cave. We noticed it with infrared cameras. This is the primary time in historical past when this sort of methodology was used to protect the Mediterranean seals,” he mentioned.
Özdil famous that they solely used pure supplies to not hurt animals and nature.
Turkey is among the many 4 nations the place these monk seals stay.
As the one kind of seal whose pure habitat is heat seas, the Mediterranean monk seal is an endangered species.
Some 100 Mediterranean monk seals are believed to have remained alongside Turkey’s shoreline, with most of them residing in caves close to the western resort city of Foça (Phocaea in antiquity), whose identify was derived from the Greek and Latin time period for seals (Phocoidea – Phocidae).
The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is likely one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals. It is the only member of the genus Monachus, and is certainly one of two surviving species of monk seals together with the Hawaiian monk seal. The species is described as ”critically endangered” by the IUCN and is listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Because of their trusting nature, they have been straightforward prey for hunters and fishermen utilizing golf equipment, spears and nets.
