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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-03-18Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Nireas, Mediterranean monk seal pup, ready for 'big splash'(ANA-MPA)-The big day has arrived for Nireas, a Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) pup that had been found last month on a Kythira island beach severely dehydrated, and after five weeks at the Seal Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (STRC) in Steni Valia on Alonissos island will be released back into the sea on Saturday.Nireas, as the Monachus monachus seal pup was "christened" at the Center, was just 2 1/2 months old when he was found on February 14 on Feloti beach on Kythira very weakened, weighing just 30 kilos, severely dehydrated and its peptic system heavily infected by parasites, but responded quickly and well to intensive treatment at the center.(ANA-MPA) The pup now enjoys the best of health, and weighs in at over 50 kilos.(ANA-MPA) Nireas is scheduled to be released back into the open sea on Saturday, in the region of the Alonnisos Marine Park of the Northern Sporades island complex, from where he will begin his long journey through the Greek seas.(ANA-MPA) Rehabilitating injured or ailing seals is one of the most significant, and surely the most difficult, activities of the Center over the last 22 years, since its founding in 1990.(ANA-MPA) For a species threatened with extinction, to save even one animal is crucial for the speciesâ protection and preservation, according to the Center's staff.(ANA-MPA) The Monachus monachus (Mediterranean monk seal) is listed as a "critically endangered" species.(ANA-MPA) (Photo: ANA-MPA/STRC) More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form  [02] President receives NBG head(ANA-MPA) -- President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias received National Bank of Greece (NBG) board chairman Vassilis Rapanos on Thursday, with the latter stressing that "the impossible must be done" in this difficult period.Papoulias spoke of "difficult times", while Rapanos noted the difficult period in which the Greek economy and society are going through. "We, at National Bank, at least, believe that in a difficult period we must make the impossible possible and make the effort in order to help the country exit from the crisis," he added. (ANA-MPA) More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form  [03] 18 geothermal proposals(ANA-MPA) -- Greeceâs Environment ministry on Wednesday hailed as an "unprecedented success" the results of an international tender to lease four regions eligible for research and development of geothermal energy in the country.The tender, the first of its kind ever in Greece, covers four regions in the delta of the Nestos River, the Evros Delta, the island of Samothrace and the eastern Aegean island of Hios. The Institute for Geological and Mineral Research (IMGE), in a report, said there was evidence of rich geothermal energy sources in these sites. (ANA-MPA) More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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