{"id":134,"date":"2009-04-08T14:36:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=134"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:32:12","slug":"congress-allocates-57-million-to-help-save-hawaiian-monk-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/08\/congress-allocates-57-million-to-help-save-hawaiian-monk-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress allocates $5.7 million to help save Hawaiian monk seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch \u2014 Honolulu Advertiser, 11 April 2009<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Federal funds will also provide jobs for ocean scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congress has allocated $5.7 million \u2014 the largest single-year sum to date \u2014 for Hawaiian monk seal recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Next to corporate bailouts and economic stimulus plans, the amount pales. But conservation managers say it will make a great difference for the critically endangered animals, whose numbers have dropped below 1,200 in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My reaction initially was jubilation,&#8221; said Charles Littnan, lead scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries&#8217; monk seal research program. &#8220;Then immediately comes the weight of responsibility \u2014 making sure that we spend the money efficiently, properly and to maximize impact on the seals.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101215212334\/http:\/\/the.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/2009\/Apr\/07\/ln\/hawaii904070349.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch \u2014 Honolulu Advertiser, 11 April 2009 Federal funds will also provide jobs for ocean scientists Congress has allocated $5.7 million \u2014 the largest single-year sum to date \u2014 for Hawaiian monk seal recovery efforts. Next to corporate bailouts and economic stimulus plans, the amount pales. But conservation managers say it will make a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/08\/congress-allocates-57-million-to-help-save-hawaiian-monk-seals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress allocates $5.7 million to help save Hawaiian monk seals&#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":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}