Cape Cross Seal Reserve

Cape Cross Seal Reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Seal colony
location	Erongo , Namibia
surface	60 km²
WDPA ID	1361
Geographical location	21 ° 46 ′  S , 13 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 21 ° 46 ′ 21 ″  S , 13 ° 57 ′ 6 ″  E
Setup date	1968
administration	Ministry of Environment and Tourism

The Seal Reserve Cape Cross ( English Cape Cross Seal Reserve ) is from the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism declared a nature reserve. It includes the Kreuzkap area .

The Seal Reserve is one of the largest and most accessible especially to visitors collections of South African fur seals - a sea lions -Art - on the mainland. Here they form a colony of up to 250,000 animals (last ministry figures from 2007) to give birth to their young in October or November. In this mass, the seals pose a real problem for fishing, because seals eat around eight percent of their own weight on fish every day.

To prevent overpopulation, seals are killed in large numbers at Cape Cross every year .

The fur seal colony has made black-backed jackals and hyenas their habitat, here they live on the edge of the desert and feed on seal pups and afterbirths.

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  Seal at Cape Cross

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  Seal colony

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  Suckling young fur seal

Web links

Commons : Cape Cross Seal Reserve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official site to reserve (English)
• Official information and brochure about the park ( Memento of August 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)