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Are the Caribbean Monk Seals extinct or endangered?

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Are the Caribbean Monk Seals extinct or endangered?

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  1. extinct


  2. ditto

  3. The last confirmed sighting in 1952 was of a small colony on Seranilla Bank, a group of tiny coral islands halfway between Jamaica and Honduras (Van den Hoek Ostende, 1999). An aerial survey in 1973, conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, found extensive fishing activity throughout the former range of this seal. A later cruise through the Gulf of Mexico and around the Yucatan Peninsula failed to find any Caribbean monk seals in the area. Surveys have been carried out as late as 1993, all without success. The Caribbean monk seal was formally declared extinct in the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

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