{"id":1095,"date":"2010-06-10T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:36:17","slug":"harming-monk-seals-now-a-felony-under-hawaii-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/10\/harming-monk-seals-now-a-felony-under-hawaii-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Harming monk seals now a felony under Hawaii law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Hawaii News Now, 10 June 2010<\/h5>\n<figure style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/khnl.images.worldnow.com\/images\/12616433_BG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"173\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Governor James &quot;Duke&quot; Aiona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) \u2013 Hawaii has  toughened penalties against people who harm endangered species, in  particular against those who would harm the critically endangered  Hawaiian monk seal. Lt. Governor James &#8220;Duke&#8221; Aiona signed Senate Bill  2441 into law Tuesday morning at the State Capitol. The law takes effect  immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It  was a community effort [&#8230;] many, many other people stepped  forward and said enough is enough. We need to make this a real crime.  Hopefully other people will think twice about hurting and harming monk  seals,&#8221; state Senator Gary Hooser said.<\/p>\n<p>The new law adds additional punishment beyond  the federal Endangered Species Act, imposing a fine of up to $50,000  and five years in prison on anyone who harms a monk seal. It also makes  it a felony under Hawaii law to harass, harm or kill any endangered or  threatened species. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/global\/story.asp?s=12616433\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Hawaii News Now, 10 June 2010 HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) \u2013 Hawaii has toughened penalties against people who harm endangered species, in particular against those who would harm the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal. Lt. Governor James &#8220;Duke&#8221; Aiona signed Senate Bill 2441 into law Tuesday morning at the State Capitol. The law takes effect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/10\/harming-monk-seals-now-a-felony-under-hawaii-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harming monk seals now a felony under Hawaii law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,30,34],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-direct-killing","tag-main-hawaiian-islands","tag-human-seal-interaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}