Coast of the Seals

 coast, nature conservation park / area, invisible

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the northern part is administered by Morocco, the southern by Mauretania as a part of the Arkin Basin Park (fr.: Parc national du Banc d'Arguin)
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fr.: Côte des phoques (monques)
sp.: Costa de las Focas and "Las Cuevecillas" (= small"caves"(?)at the cliff coast, where the seals live)

The northern, Moroccan part is a part of the supposed National Park Dakhla, announced for decades.
" Un projet de suivi de la population du Phoque moine le long de la côte de l’Aguerguer est en cours de réalisation, en partenariat entre l’Association Nature-Initiative de Dakhla et une équipe espagnole." www.go-south.org/08_Go_SouthBulletin/gsb_9_145-149.pdf
The coastline of the northern Moroccan part is not accessible to tourists because of alleged danger of land-mines on the beaches. Non-uniformed guards explain that it is to be a military site. cibio.up.pt/crocodilos/images/saara/15.pdf

It is the prolongation of the cost area of the Mauritanian Banc-d'Arguin National Park.

Following the mass mortality that struck the world’s largest surviving monk seal colony in 1997, 103 individuals were estimated to survive (mean estimate. 95% CI: 77 – 148, Forcada et al. 1999), down from 300. These estimates are generally considered more reliable than those obtained elsewhere since they relied upon clearly-defined photo-identification procedures, often impractical elsewhere. New estimates of 150 individuals are based on interpretations of evidence by researchers – counts of seals at low tide in breeding caves, increasing beach counts, and decreasing mortalities – but have not been confirmed by capture-recapture methods
cit: www.monachus-guardian.org/factfiles/medit15.htm
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