Ionian Islands
An orphaned female monk seal pup later named Nefeli was found stranded at Assos beach and transferred for rehabilitation.
Source: MOm
14 October 2009 · Ionian IslandsGreece · Mediterranean Sea
Greece · stories
From the public record.
Read recent published observations from Greece. Each entry keeps its original source attribution and a link back to the archive.
Dodecanese
A newborn female monk seal pup was found on Blefoutis beach after a strong winter storm. MOm's diary states that she was discovered on 10 December, then rescued and rehabilitated; later release and death are separate events.
Source: MOm / The Monachus Guardian
10 December 2008 · DodecaneseCyclades
Researchers directly observed six pups resting or swimming in one monitored cave on the same field-survey day. This is one cave encounter, separate from the other cave recorded that day.
Source: Dendrinos et al. (2008)
8 October 2007 · CycladesCyclades
A monk seal pup was observed swimming in a second monitored cave on Gyaros. Kept separate from the six pups recorded in another cave that day.
Source: Dendrinos et al. (2008)
8 October 2007 · CycladesCyclades
Viktoria Drouga found a newborn female monk seal pup struggling in storm waves at Kolimpithra beach. The pup was later named Victoria and taken into care.
Source: MOm / The Monachus Guardian
1 October 2007 · CycladesCyclades
At 14:30 the observer heard a noise and saw a grey monk seal swim from a cave at very close range, then recorded it swimming and cave activity. The source describes this as a separate sighting from 25 April; no distinct individual claim is made.
Source: Bjoern Lovén / The Monachus Guardian; MOm response
27 April 2007 · CycladesCyclades
The observer reported one monk seal swimming in poor visibility during the late afternoon. The later 27 April encounter made the observer confident that this first sighting was also a seal; the two sightings are retained as separate dated encounters without inferring that they were different animals.
Source: Bjoern Lovén / The Monachus Guardian; MOm response
25 April 2007 · CycladesCyclades
A female monk seal was observed nursing her pup on an open beach during a field survey. The two linked Table 1 rows describe this one mother-pup encounter.
Source: Dendrinos et al. (2008)
5 December 2005 · CycladesCyclades
A female Mediterranean monk seal pup was observed resting on an open beach during a field survey. This report describes one individual row, not the survey total.
Source: Dendrinos et al. (2008)
7 November 2004 · CycladesCentral Macedonia
MOm responders found a newborn pup in rough water near Platamonas and watched it come ashore while its mother remained nearby. MOm later named them Moskof and Belucci.
Source: Alexandros Karamanlidis / MOm, The Monachus Guardian
13 October 2004 · Central MacedoniaDodecanese
A two-week-old male monk seal pup was found stranded on Kefalos beach after stormy weather. The mother did not return, so MOm transferred the pup for rehabilitation.
Source: MOm / The Monachus Guardian
7 October 2004 · DodecaneseDodecanese
An orphaned Mediterranean monk seal pup later named Dimitris was found on Karpathos in poor condition and transferred for rehabilitation.
Source: MOm, LIFE programme report
29 December 2003 · Dodecanese