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Seals Stage Comeback on France's Northern Coast

Reuters

   MARCK, FRANCE - Crowds of seals lie on the sand, some wriggling towards
   the water, on the northern French coast where they are staging a
   comeback.

   Drone images show around 250 wild grey seals, adults and cubs,
   frolicking at low tide near the town of Marck.

   Seals started to disappear from the Cote d'Opale in the 1970s, under
   pressure from fishermen who saw them as rivals for their catch.

   Seals, which have no natural predators in the English Channel, have
   been a protected species in France since the 1980s and as a result they
   have begun to return to the coast.

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