Environment

In February of 2016, a rare feat in environmental protection took place when the Hellenic Society for the Study & Protection of the Mediterranean Monk Seal (MOm) announced that the seal had made an unexpected comeback in the Aegean, with its population recovering to the point where it was no longer considered “critically endangered.”

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Shark sightings are a rare occurrence in Greece, which is why locals were surprised to see one on the afternoon of Holy Tuesday, at Karathonas beach in Nafplio, a seaport town on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese.

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Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has adopted a Greek stray dog according to an announcement on his Instagram account.

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The cats and dogs lie as if asleep, in individual graves. Many wore collars or other adornments, and they had been cared for through injury and old age, like today’s pets. But the last person to bury a beloved animal companion in this arid Egyptian land on the coast of the Red Sea did so nearly 2000 years ago.

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