DBH 4, Protecting the wild

Edge of existence! from Marta Martín

Iberian linx from Marta Martín

The gray wolf from Marta Martín

MEDITERRANEAN MONK SEAL

The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae. As of 2015, it is estimated that fewer than 700 individuals survive in three or four isolated subpopulations in the Mediterranean (especially in the Aegean Sea), the archipelago of Madeira and the Cabo Blancoarea in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is believed to be the world's rarest pinniped species.

DESCRIPTION

This species of seals grows from approximately 80 centimetres (2.6 ft) long at birth up to an average of 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) as adults.

REPRODUCTION

Scientists have suggested that they are polygynous, with males being very territorial where they mate with females.

HABITAT

Mediterranean monk seals had been known to congregate, give birth, and seek refuge on open beaches.

BY: ARaitz

 

The iberian wolf from Marta Martín

Guara wolf from Marta Martín

Giant otter from Marta Martín

Project lynx life 1994 1999 from Marta Martín

Animal in extintion from Marta Martín

Animal in extintion from Marta Martín

   RUMANIA

The lynx is a animal that is located in Rumania, is  endangered to disappear. Lots of people want to catch them for decorations or to use your hair to make clothes.

The Romanian goverment believe that they are not so much lynx living, they are almost 10 % and they are most baby lynx than older ones. In the last years they catch a lot of these animals for the whims of the people.

These animals they live in cold or warm forest or in the lower part of the mountain. The government has put up signs warning that you can not hunt animals, in specific lynxes because they are extinct and whoever happens to go hunting are 20,000 fine.

BY: Mihaela