by Briseida MEMA Agence France Presse Vlora, Albania (AFP) — A team of Albanian marine biologists scan the azure waters of the Ionian Sea for a sign of one of the rarest marine mammals in the world. Mediterranean monk seals were once abundant, but now there are only a few hundred left in small scattered groups off Albania, Greece and Turkey and in Mauritania, on Africa’s Atlantic coast. Yet there are glimmers of hope for […]
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Marine conservationists raise alarm on plastic waste threat
MALINDI, Kenya (AFP) — Conservationists in the Kenyan town of Watumu are seeking the help of local residents to try to raise awareness of the dangers of plastic waste, which is posing a major threat to the marine ecosystem.





