‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park | Oceans

‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park | Oceans

Six decades ago, pioneering oceanographer and conservationist Sylvia Earle made a bittersweet discovery while diving off Chile’s oceanic islands with the US National Science Foundation vessel, the Anton Bruun. She found the remains of a baby fur seal, one of the world’s most isolated aquatic mammals. Endemic to the Juan Fernández archipelago, in the Pacific…

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