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	Ringed Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ringed Seal or Jar Seal is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic coasts.
		Lives only in Lake Saimaa in Finland and is one of the most threatened seals in the world with total population around 250 individuals.
		Examination of Early Paleoeskimo sites in Arctic Canada has demonstrated the deliberate hunting of juvenile and young adult ringed seals, probably in the fall and winter from frozen cracks and leads in the ice (Murray, 2005).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ringed_Seal (257 words)

	Saimaa ringed seal — Virtual Finland
		Seal lairs are located under thick snowdrifts on the ice near the shoreline rocks of the lakes.
		The seal pups are born at the end of February or in early March.
		The number of seal pups is deduced on the basis of lairs because seals and their pups are very difficult to spot in the wild.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25721 (1882 words)

	Species of Seals - Population Status
		The ringed seal is an opportunistic feeder, feeding on bottom-dwelling organisms, plankton and fish.
		Of the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina, commonly 4 subspecies are recognized: the Eastern Atlantic harbor seal, Phoca vitulina vitulina, the Western Atlantic harbor seal, Phoca vitulina concolor, the Insular harbor seal, Phoca vitulina stejnegeri, and the Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi.
		Characteristic for the harbor seal are the V-shaped nostrils.
	www.valdezlink.com /pages/seals_species.htm (1914 words)

	Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida)
		The ringed seal measures from 85 to 160 cm and weigh 40 to 90 kg.
		The ringed seal is an opportunistic feeder, feeding on benthic, nektonic and planktonic organisms.
		An estimated 40-60% of the seals is not mature (Sipilä, 1991).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/ringseal.htm (1453 words)

	Soila Lehtonen: Sealspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ringed seal only lives in the least inhabited parts of Saimaa, but there is plenty of space for the seal population to grow - it is now approximately 280.
		An adult seal contains 11 litres of blood on average (humans have 5 litres), and their haemoglobin level is 250 (milligrams per litre; humans' level is 120-170 on average); plentiful oxygen in the blood makes long dives and sleep in the water possible.
		Seals may live as long as 30 years, and they seem to be very faithful to their home waters.
	dbgw.finlit.fi /fili/bff/205/Lehtonen_205.html (1248 words)

	SCS: Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida)
		The retreat of ice during the last glaciation caused the Baltic ringed seal to become separated from the Arctic ringed seal about 11,000 years ago, and also caused the Saimaa and Ladoga seals to be trapped in their respective freshwater lakes about 8,000-9,000 years ago.
		Ringed seals are one of the most important subsistence prey for native hunters throughout their range, but it is difficult to determine the extent of this hunting.
		Arctic ringed seals, mostly pups and subadults, are the major prey of polar bears and arctic foxes.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/ringed.htm (3005 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Ringed seal
		Ringed seals are small seals living in the northern hemisphere.
		Ringed seals are adapted to living on stable arctic sea ice.
		Currently most subspecies of ringed seals are not thought to be threatened, although changes to the Arctic ice because of global warming is a concern.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/601.shtml (314 words)

	Saimaa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saimaa, or Saimen in Swedish, is a lake in southeastern Finland.
		The river Vuoksi flows from Saimaa to Lake Ladoga.
		The Saimaa Canal from Lappeenranta to Vyborg binds Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saimaa (148 words)

	The Whale-Watching Web: Seal population in the Gulf of Finland
		The number of Ringed Seals in the Gulf is possibly greater, but they occur mainly in the eastern parts of the Gulf and the stock is not known.
		At the end of 1991, the carcasses of 150 Ringed Seals began to drift ashore on the islands in the eastern Gulf of Finland, mostly in Russia where the first specimens were discovered.
		The investigation into the high mortality of Ringed Seals in the eastern Gulf of Finland at the end of 1991 was supported financially by WWF-Finland and carried-out in co- operation with the University of St. Petersburg.
	www.helsinki.fi /~lauhakan/whale/finland/stenman.html (622 words)

	Suomen Luonto - English summaries 9/2000
		Population growth is a consequence of conservation efforts contributed to by voluntary organisations, authorities, residents and summer house owners in the seals’ vicinity.
		As many as three seals were seen, which was cause for celebration, as many of the people dwelling round Lake Saimaa never glimpse a single seal throughout their lives.
		Saimaa ringed seals behave in a different manner to the ringed seals of the Baltic and Lake Ladoga (Russia).
	www.suomenluontolehti.fi /artikkeli.php3?a=35 (1904 words)

	07/25/01 -- Climate change a new threat for the most endangered seal in the world
		Saimaa ringed seals normally give birth to their cubs in a den built of snow.
		WWF is concerned that a repeat of the pattern of warmer weather in future winters could have disastrous consequences for the survival of the population.
		Until the early 1980s, the Saimaa ringed seal population was on the decrease.
	www.climateark.org /articles/2001/3rd/newthfor.htm (741 words)

	Ringed seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		the snowdrift in Ringed as ringed are subspecies one Seal or the northern Endangered.
		Ringed seals are found in all the Arctic seas and in the North Pacific as far south as The ringed seal is the most abundant of the Arctic ice seals.
		Ringed Seal Research in the Arctic The purpose of the project was to study aspects of the ecology of the ringed seal sps.
	ringed-seal.oi57.com (1649 words)

	Ringed Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		mammal in the Arctic, and the northern Ringed Seal.
		The ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) is an endangered
		Saimaa Ringed Seal is one of the eastern Arctic and the northern
	www.supreme-unusual-website.be /Ringed-Seal.php (1756 words)

	Metsähallitus - Saimaa Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Saimaa Ringed Seal is one of the most threatened seals in the world.
		The ringed seals are the most northely seal species.
		In harmony with the Habitats Directive of the European Union, Finland is committed to the protection of the Saimaa Ringed Seal.
	www.metsa.fi /natural/species/seal/first.htm (263 words)

	MavicaNET - Harbor seals (Phoca) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The harbor seal or common seal are the most aquatic member of the species.
		Ringed seals make their lairs by rubbing away the ice with their fore flippers.
		Harbor seals bask and sleep on coastal islands, ledges, and beaches and sandbars that are uncovered at low tide.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/ita/28218.html?sortby=5 (429 words)

	Kunnasranta, Mervi, Behavioural biology of two ringed seal (Phoca hispida) subspecies in the large European lakes ...
		The Saimaa ringed seal typically spent 65-80% of the total time submerged during the open-water season.
		The length of the intestinal tract in relation to body length was shorter in the Saimaa ringed seal than in marine ringed seals.
		Underwater vocalisation of the Ladoga ringed seal was rich and six different sound types were identified, among them two sound types that have not been described previously for the ringed seal.
	joypub.joensuu.fi /publications/dissertations/kunnasranta_behavioural/abstract.html (445 words)

	Risto Vainola / project abstracts
		At eight microsatellite loci, the current gene diversity (heterozygosity) of the Saimaa seal was 69% lower than in the reference populations.
		Ringed seals colonized the Baltic Sea basin soon after deglaciation 11 500 years ago and are supposed to have remained largely isolated from the main Arctic stock since then, approximate to 1000 generations.
		Microsatellite heterozygosity in ringed seals was higher than that in the closely related, boreal harbour seal and grey seal, for which the markers were initially developed.
	www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /english/zoology/invertebrates/research/molecular/abstracts.htm (7671 words)

	Seal, seal products, city seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is the present seal of the City of Chicago, and it is described the.
		seal The Saimaa Ringed Seal is one of the most threatened seals in the world.
		Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience,.
	www.nissan-sentra.org /seal.html (982 words)

	AbstractsFranck
		We confirm that a previous estimate of 300 000 ringed seals in the Baltic is within a possible range, which in fact extends from 50 000 to 450 000 individuals.
		For the Saimaa seal, the estimates indicate a low population size in 1893, ranging from 100 to 1300 individuals, whereas the carrying capacity of the lake has been estimated to be at least 2000-2500 seals.
		This result may either indicate that the Saimaa seal was initially less abundant than thought, or that the known hunting statistics simply do not capture the true magnitude of the decline.
	www.ese.u-psud.fr /epc/conservation/pages/AbstractsFranck.html (7594 words)

	Ringed Seal
		Factors affecting the observed densities of ringed seals, Phoca hispida, in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea, 1996-99.
		Trends in organochlorine residue concentrations in ringed seal (Phoca hispida) from Holman, Northwest Territories, 1972-91.
		The ringed seal, Phoca hispida, of the Canadian western arctic (Canadian bulletin of fisheries and aquatic sciences)
	www.veryhappening.com /things/ringed_seal (221 words)

	Karelika \| Our tours
		The Ladoga ringed seal (Phoca hispida ladogensis) is a post-glacial relic, as are two other subspecies, the Baltic ringed seal (P.h.botnica) and the Saimaa ringed seal (P.h.saimensis).
		At present the Ladoga ringed seal is included in the Red Data Books of Russia and Karelia and in the IUCN red List as a vulnerable species.
		Ladoga seal moults annually from April to June (with the peak in mid-April - early May), and during this period the animals are less careful and hence most vulnerable.
	www.karelika.ru /en/tour_folder.php?itemId=5090 (245 words)

	Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Foreign
		Meanwhile, the Saimaa Ringed Seal native to the Finnish inland Saimaa waterway, is doing fairly well, and the population could even recover if the present sanctuaries are kept intact, and if more seals are not killed in fish traps.
		Seal hunting in the Baltic is a matter of grave concern, says the group's chairman Gordon Waring of the United States.
		On the other hand, large groups of ringed seals can be seen lying on shoreline rocks on Estonia, and on the shores of Lake Ladoga in Russia.
	www.hs.fi /english/article/1101979483776 (453 words)

	Arctic Wildlife Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ringed Seal Image Ringed seals (Phoca hispida) are the most common and most widespread seals in the arctic.
		Saimaa Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) Image The Saimaa Ringed Seal is one of the most threatened seals in the world.
		The ringed seal distribution is circumpolar, including the Eurasian and Canadian arctic and also southward to the Hudson Bay, Labrador, Japan, and occasionally Northeastern Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/arctic_wildlife (10395 words)

	Global Warming - care4nature.org ________________________________________________________________ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the major conservation organization wwf today said that global warming poses a new threat to the ringed seals of Lake Saimaa, in Finland, which with only 250 individuals left in the wild, is the most endangered seal species in the world.
		Climate change is a new risk for Saimaa ringed seals.
		• The Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) is a subspecies of the ringed seal, the most northerly seal species.
	www.care4nature.org /ecoinfo/globalwarming/archive3.htm (393 words)

	Ringed Seal: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The three last subspecies are isolated from the others, like the closely related Nerpa The nerpa or baikal seal (phoca sibirica) is a species of earless seal endemic (ecology)endemic to lake baikal, a huge freshwater lake in siberia near the border with mongolia)....
		Nerpa The nerpa or baikal seal (phoca sibirica) is a species of earless seal endemic (ecology)endemic to lake baikal, a huge freshwater lake in siberia near the border with mongolia)....
		Northern Elephant Seal The northern elephant seal (mirounga angustirostris) is one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the southern elephant seal)....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /r/ringed_seal (1121 words)

	Walkingworld
		The seal is found only in the Saimaa region, having adapted itself to a freshwater habitat after becoming stranded in the lakes at the end of the last Ice Age.
		Motorised boats disrupt the seals’ breeding patterns, while pollution, fishing and shoreline building mean that fewer than 200 of these endearing creatures remain.
		In this way, the rare Saimaa seal has become both the symbol of a precarious ecosystem and the representative of the drive towards its preservation.
	www.walkingworld.com /home/index.asp?id=33&nid=199 (1641 words)

	Helcom : Baltic Ringed Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Baltic ringed seal (Phoca hispida botnica) is listed as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
		By the 1970s, hunting and pollution had reduced the total population to about 2,000, but back in the 1900s there may have been as many as 200,000 ringed seals in the Baltic.
		Recent surveys indicate that there are about 4,000 ringed seals in the Gulf of Bothnia, 200-300 in the Gulf of Finland and about 1,400 in the Gulf of Riga.
	www.helcom.fi /environment2/biodiv/seals/en_GB/ringed (152 words)

	Metsähallitus - Natural Heritage Services, Annual Report 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nests of the Ladoga Seal are being inspected by Finnish and Russian specialists.
		A record number of 57 Saimaa Ringed Seal cubs (Phoca hispida saimensis) were born during the spring of 2000.
		Especially delightful was the fact that five cubs were born at the border of the range of the species, south of Puumala.
	www.metsa.fi /natural/annualreport/2000/species.htm (587 words)

	Outdoors.fi - Kolovesi National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kolovesi is a part of greater Saimaa lake complex, which forms the largest lake in Finland.
		Kolovesi National Park was established to protect the natural features of Lake Saimaa archipelago in their natural state, the habitat of the Saimaa Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida saimensis), and the forest ecosystems characteristic to Southern Finland.
		A unique and important glacial relict is the most endangered seal in the world, the Saimaa Ringed Seal.
	www.luontoon.fi /print.asp?Section=5037 (228 words)

	Activities in 2000-2001 \| SLL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		SLL is also concentrating on further development of the Natura 2000 network (a nature conservation network of the European Union) in Finland and promotion of the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) forest certification scheme.
		SLL campaigns for the protection of endangered species, including the Saimaa ringed seal, grey seal, eagle species, the Baltic salmon and the larger Finnish mammalian predators (wolf, bear, wolverine, lynx).
		An eco-label called 'Norppa' (Saimaa ringed seal) is available to supply companies producing electricity by means fulfilling SLL's criteria.
	arkisto.sll.fi /english/2000_2001.html (772 words)

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