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(MoU) concerning Conservation Measures for the Eastern Atlantic Populations of
the Mediterranean Monk Seal was concluded and came into effect on 18 October
2007. The MoU covers four range States (Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal and
Spain), all of which have signed, and aims at providing a legal and institutional
framework for the implementation of the Action Plan for the Recovery of the
Mediterranean Monk Seal in the Eastern Atlantic (Wikipedia).

Sightings
In June 2009, there was a report of a sighting off the island of Giglio, in Italy
(Wikipedia).
On 7 January 2010, fishermen spotted an injured Mediterranean monk seal off
the coasts of Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Occupied Palestine. When zoo veterinarians arrived
to help the seal, it had slipped back into the waters. Members of the Israel Marine
Mammal Research and Ass