There are eight species of southern fur seals, all smaller than their northern relative. They include the Guadalupe fur seal of Baja California, the brown fur seal of southern Africa and Australia ...

This seal is threatened by many human activities, from shipping to oil and gas development, and even hunting. But climate change is likely to prove the worst danger of all. As climate change ...

WWF is leading the way in Saimaa seal protection, one of the world's most endangered seal species. Helsinki ... WWF-Finland's Director of Conservation. All fishing once posed the biggest threat to the ...

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in ... protection under the ...

“It’s really disheartening when the species you’re trying to protect is becoming the troublemaker,” said Charles Littnan, the lead scientist for the Hawaiian monk seal research program at ...