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Old January 19th, 2013, 10:14 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
didier Meurgues
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160 bouquetins..., which desappeared from the french Pyrenean mountains in 1910... and from the spanish ones only in 2000, but not in the rest of Spain, will be reintroduced in France: 40 spanish animals each year from April 2013 to mid-2016:
http://aquitaine.france3.fr/2012/11/...es-152261.html

Good news: let's hope than in 3 months, the diversity of continental mammals in France will thus be reestablished to its state posterior to the disappearance of the Auroch, about... 8 centuries ago !
Furthermore, there are more and more "veau marin" seals on the Baie de Somme estuary with a colony of 290 animals in 2012. In 1998 the first reproductions were observed again as well as the arrival of a more septentrional new specy, the "phoque gris"(Halichoerus grypus), now 70 animals, thanks to the growing english population, but without reproduction. Since 1973 some few births are nevertheless observed in their 2 colonies of about 150 seals of Molene and Sept-îles in Britanny, at the extreme limit of their reproduction area:
http://eric.marchand7.free.fr/mm52.htm
http://www.picardie-nature.org/spip.php?article469
http://www.parc-marin-iroise.fr/Rich...s-phoques-gris

The mediterranean seal (phoque moine) disappeared from Corsica in 1973 and is one of the most endangered species in Europe (less than 800 individuals left in the world) and can't be reintroduced until it grows again in Greece and Italy, despite some demands of support from the European commission for a reintroduction near Cape Creus.