21. WWF - Species found in the Baltic Ecoregion
Lutra lutra
Ringed seal - Phoca hispida botnica
Harbour porpoise - Phocoena phocoena
Grey seal - Haliceoerus grypus
Common seal - Phoca vitulina
Flying squirrel - Pteromys volans
Fish
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22. WWF - WWF & IUCN Outline 'Vision for Our Blue Planet' on World Oceans Day
of the
Mediterranean Monk Seal along the Cilician coast of southern Turkey.
This is the rarest Seal in the world, with total surviving numbers probably
less than 300.
Other significant commitments were also recognized by WWF in its
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23. WWF - Patagonian Southwest Atlantic
colony of Southern elephant seals ( Mirounga leonina ) and provides breeding and calving grounds for Southern right whales ( Eubalaena australis ).
Local Species
Early this century, fur seals and sea lions (Family, Otariidae ) were heavily
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/patagonian_southwest_atlantic.cfm - 41.7kb
24. WWF - New Zealand Marine
include Southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ), New Zealand fur seal ( Arctocephalus forsteri ), Hooker's sea lion ( Phocarctos hookeri ), Dusky dolphin ( Lagenorhynchus obscurus ), Hector's dolphin ( Cephalorynchus hectori ), Sperm whale
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/new_zealand_marine.cfm - 41.6kb
25. WWF - Northeast Atlantic Shelf Marine
is home to the Grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus ), Harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina ), Atlantic puffin ( Fratercula arctica ), Arctic tern ( Sterna paradisaea ), Porbeagle shark ( Lamna nasus ), Arctic cod ( Boreogadus saida ), Arctic char (
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/neatlantic_shelf_marine.cfm - 40.6kb
26. WWF - Benguela Current
capensis ), Cape fur seal ( Artocephalus pusillus ), Southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis ), and the rare Heaviside's dolphin ( Cephalorhynchus heavisidei ).
Threats
Persistent overharvesting of many commercially valuable
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/benguela_current.cfm - 40.6kb
27. WWF - Climate Witness: Kenji Ito, Japan
ice are the eagles and the seals. The spotted seal and the ribbon seal give birth between mid-March and April and bring up their young on the drift ice for some time. The drift ice is therefore one of the places where they live. If there is no
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28. WWF - Climate Witness: Kenji Ito, Japan
ice are the eagles and the seals. The spotted seal and the ribbon seal give birth between mid-March and April and bring up their young on the drift ice for some time. The drift ice is therefore one of the places where they live. If there is no
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/people_at_risk/personal_stories/witness_stories/?201106 - 58.0kb
29. WWF - Baltic Sea
Protecting Baltic Sea seals
The UK hotspots were chosen for their diverse populations of wildlife, which include grey seals.
© Charles Hood / WWF-UK
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30. WWF - WWF Greece’s new campaign to save endangered marine mammals
of the Mediterranean monk seal) have embarked on an ambitious project to mitigate a very important problem of Greece’s maritime environment, the conservation of Greek marine biodiversity. Greece’s marine biodiversity, albeit
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/greece/projects/save_marine_mammals/ - 44.1kb
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