carribean monk seal official now extinct!

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U.S.: Caribbean monk seal is extinct - Environment - MSNBC.com

After five years of futile efforts to find or confirm sightings of any Caribbean monk seals ? even just one ? the U.S. government on Friday announced that the species is officially extinct and the only seal to vanish due to human causes.

"Humans left the Caribbean monk seal population unsustainable after overhunting them," Kyle Baker, a biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, this led to their demise and labels the species as the only seal to go extinct from human causes."

A Caribbean monk seal ? the only subtropical seal native to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico ? had not been seen for more than 50 years. The last confirmed sighting was in 1952 at Seranilla Bank, between Jamaica and the Yucatan Peninsula.

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@Fatal Freedoms,

Fatal_Freedoms;57780 wrote:

U.S.: Caribbean monk seal is extinct - Environment - MSNBC.com

After five years of futile efforts to find or confirm sightings of any Caribbean monk seals ? even just one ? the U.S. government on Friday announced that the species is officially extinct and the only seal to vanish due to human causes.

"Humans left the Caribbean monk seal population unsustainable after overhunting them," Kyle Baker, a biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, this led to their demise and labels the species as the only seal to go extinct from human causes."

A Caribbean monk seal ? the only subtropical seal native to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico ? had not been seen for more than 50 years. The last confirmed sighting was in 1952 at Seranilla Bank, between Jamaica and the Yucatan Peninsula.

It is a sad and poiniant day when we have to aknowledge the over population of our wonderful Earth has such a catastrophic impact on our enviroment. Unfortunately this is just the begining as our Global population expands ever more, the pressure on our wildlife in there natural eco-systems and habitas grows ever more harful and pushes more ond more of our most fragile species to the edge of extinction.

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@Fatal Freedoms,

Wow, the value of my slippers just skyrocketed.

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@DiversityDriven,

DiversityDriven;57822 wrote:

Wow, the value of my slippers just skyrocketed.

Not unless your slippers where made in the 1940's at least or earlier.

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@DiversityDriven,

DiversityDriven;57822 wrote:

Wow, the value of my slippers just skyrocketed.

And that my friend, is the reason why our wildlife is in so much danger. People think that somehow 'tree hugging hippies' are full of **** and it's all made up. Or they just give a damn, in which case they will answer to their Grand children when they ask them what they did to stop the Tigers and Lions and Rhino's from becoming extinct. Their answer, erm,....um,...well my slippers' value went up.

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@Fatal Freedoms,

Caribean Monk Seal... Didnt they take a vow of celibacy?

Seriously, whoop dee doo, I hear from so many people bitching about how much money we have spent on say IRAQ, and what that money could have done for us here?

It pisses me off that this study Searching for this seal that cost millions of dolalrs was not used on something important... Like better armor for our troops.

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@rugonnacry,

rugonnacry;57937 wrote:

Caribean Monk Seal... Didnt they take a vow of celibacy?

Seriously, whoop dee doo, I hear from so many people ***ing about how much money we have spent on say IRAQ, and what that money could have done for us here?

It pisses me off that this study Searching for this seal that cost millions of dolalrs was not used on something important... Like better armor for our troops.

"Millions of dollars" were wasted in Iraq while you were reading this sentence.

How, with a price tag in the TRILLIONS, is proper armor not being supplied? That's two orders of magnitude below what it took for this "seal hunt". TWO.

The seal doesn't bother me much IMHO... it joins the other 99.98% of species that have graced this planet.

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@rugonnacry,

rugonnacry;57937 wrote:

Caribean Monk Seal... Didnt they take a vow of celibacy?

Seriously, whoop dee doo, I hear from so many people bitching about how much money we have spent on say IRAQ, and what that money could have done for us here?

It pisses me off that this study Searching for this seal that cost millions of dolalrs was not used on something important... Like better armor for our troops.

The amount of money spent on this study would've lasted about 5 minutes in Iraq.

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@rugonnacry,

rugonnacry;57937 wrote:

Caribean Monk Seal... Didnt they take a vow of celibacy?

Seriously, whoop dee doo, I hear from so many people ***ing about how much money we have spent on say IRAQ, and what that money could have done for us here?

It pisses me off that this study Searching for this seal that cost millions of dolalrs was not used on something important... Like better armor for our troops.

Again, If more focus were put on environmental issues and finding more sustainable ways of keeping your house warm and your car running then maybe your boys wouldn't be in that **** hole fighting for the black stuff.

And just a few photos for your enjoyment. I think they are quite pertinant to he whole issue, we can see the devistation from space it's so vast.

Africa’s changing environment | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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@Sabz5150,

Sabz5150;57944 The seal doesn't bother me much IMHO... it joins the other 99.98% of species that have graced this planet.[/QUOTE wrote:

That is probably true, but I am sure no other species on this planet now or at any other time in history has had such an effect on extinction of other species.

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