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Turkey

Europe 2021 (National Endangered Wildlife)

9 May 2021

Posta ve Telgraf Teşkilatı (PTT) (Turkish Post) issued its contribution to EUROPA 2021's theme on Endangered National Wildlife featuring the Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus Monachus).

Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus Monachus) is among the most endangered mammals in the world and also considered one of the rarest species in all of Europe. The world population is estimated around 700 individuals which live in four main breeding sub populations; in the Mediterranean, along Turkish and Greek coasts and in the Atlantic, the coasts of Madeira Archipelago of Portugal and West Sahara coasts in west Africa.