Cape Cross Seal Reserve

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Cape Cross Seal Reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Seal colony

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
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Map of the state protected areas in Namibia
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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