A young hooded seal, a species that mainly lives in the Arctic, has been spotted on the beach in Ostend. It's only the fifth time that a hooded seal has been spotted on the Belgian coast. According to experts, its arrival is another warning that climate change is affecting the Arctic.Last Thursday, a walker on the beach in Ostend took a photo of a seal, which he posted in a Facebook group the following day. It turned out to be a young hooded seal, a seal species from the Arctic region.According to Haelters, it cannot be fully proven that the animal fled because its habitat is under pressure from climate change. In the meantime, however, it has already left and it is unclear where it has gone.The last sighting of a hooded seal in Belgium was in 2003.