Monk seal:
The Mediterranean monk seal vanishing in the wild.
Nearly 140 million people live along the Mediterranean Sea's 45 km of coastline. An equal number of tourist flood the area from May to October every year. This crush of people has left little room for one of the area's oldest inhabitants, the monk seal (Monachus monachus).
Once abundant in some areas of the Pacific, Caribbean, and Mediterranean seas, the monk seal became extinct in the Caribbean in the 1950s. Monk seals survive in low numbers in a few places in the Mediterranean and Hawaii. These populations of monk seals have been separated for so long that scientist consider them separate species.
The causes of endangerment are:
-Hunting
-Pollution
-Disturbance by Humans.