Learning about seals and how some of them are endangered

The reasons for numbers of sea creatures declining are all thought provoking.

Often they get entangled in disused fishing nets and they also suffer from the effects of overfishing i.e. limited food availability.

Read the full article here and see photo's http://www.mcbi.org/what/monk_seals.html

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Today, the Hawaiian monk seal is critically endangered and headed toward extinction.

Reasons for the decline of the monk seal include: overfishing, limited food availability, entanglement in marine debris, habitat loss, shark predation, competition for food, aggressive male behavior, deaths of pups, an aging population, harmful algal blooms, and global climate change.