THE MONACHUS GUARDIAN, JUNE 2010 Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Monk Seal This is to let you know that we have now published the June 2010 issue of The Monachus Guardian, the biannual electronic journal focusing on the Mediterranean, Hawaiian and Caribbean monk seals. The site can be accessed at <http://www.monachus-guardian.org> HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE: Editorial: An epidemic of killings. This issue of The Monachus Guardian brings a special focus to the Mediterranean monk seals shot and dynamited in the Eastern Mediterranean since January. What is actually being done to eliminate the single most serious mortality threat confronting the species? Hawaiian News: Seal numbers continue to dive... Mediterranean News: Greece: Alarming numbers of dead seals... Mauritania: Record births at Cabo Blanco... Turkey: Monk seal deaths in the Turkish Aegean... New population size assessment study in the NE Mediterranean... Cover Story: Markos¹ Case: Trauma, treatment, and reflections, by Emily Joseph. In Focus I: Monk seal killed by dynamite blast in the Aegean, by Anastasia Miliou. In Focus II: Nefeli¹s rehabilitation: methods, results, and challenges, by Emily Joseph. Perspectives: The world¹s two remaining monk seal species: how many different ways are there of being Critically Endangered? by Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara. Research: Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, re-sighted along the Israeli coastline after more than half a century, by Aviad Scheinin, Oz Goffman, Mia Elasar and Dani Kerem... Recent Publications. The current and back issues of The Monachus Guardian are also available from the Monk Seal Library <http://www.monachus-guardian.org/library.htm>. Should you have any comments on the web site or its contents, please contact us at: editor@monachus-guardian.org. Our sincere thanks to all the friends and colleagues who have made this issue possible. William M. Johnson editor@monachus-guardian.org PS. Don't hesitate to let us know if you appear to be on this email information list in error. _______________________________________________ William M Johnson editor@monachus-guardian.org website: http://www.monachus-guardian.org newsblog: http://www.monachus-guardian.org/wordpress Facebook: http://cli.gs/fb.tmg _______________________________________________