{"id":1691,"date":"2011-05-22T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2011-05-22T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:47:20","slug":"desperate-times-desperate-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/22\/desperate-times-desperate-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate times, desperate measures&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, The Huffington Post (Audry McAvoy, Associated Press), 21 May 2011<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1700\" title=\"monk_seal_kure_jw\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monk_seal_kure_jw-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monk_seal_kure_jw-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monk_seal_kure_jw-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monk_seal_kure_jw-800x541.jpg 800w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monk_seal_kure_jw-400x270.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Watt \/ SeaPics \/ Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Federal biologists scouring for ways to spare the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal from extinction are embracing a desperate if unorthodox strategy: They want to pluck seal pups from the small, pristine island atolls where they&#8217;re born and move them closer to Honolulu and other highly populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say this counterintuitive step is needed to help save a species that&#8217;s declining at a rate of 4 percent annually. But it is already proving to be controversial, and even unpopular among fishermen who don&#8217;t want hungry seals eating their bait and accidentally getting caught in their nets and lines.<\/p>\n<p>The National Marine Fisheries Service plans to formally propose the &#8220;translocation&#8221; of the seals in July, The Associated Press has learned. It wants to bring a few recently weaned female pups to the main Hawaiian Islands each year, keep them here until they&#8217;re three years old, and then send them back to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re desperate. That&#8217;s the bottom line. We&#8217;re watching this species just crash right in front of our eyes. This is really one of the few things that we think has a chance of making a difference,&#8221; said Jeff Walters, the agency&#8217;s Hawaiian monk seal recovery coordinator. [&#8230;Continues&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20110521\/us-monk-seal-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Feds aim to save Hawaiian monk seal<\/a>, The Huffington Post (Audry McAvoy, Associated Press), 21 May 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, The Huffington Post (Audry McAvoy, Associated Press), 21 May 2011 Federal biologists scouring for ways to spare the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal from extinction are embracing a desperate if unorthodox strategy: They want to pluck seal pups from the small, pristine island atolls where they&#8217;re born and move them closer to Honolulu &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/22\/desperate-times-desperate-measures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Desperate times, desperate measures&#8230;&#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":[14,30,34,37,48],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-fisheries","tag-main-hawaiian-islands","tag-human-seal-interaction","tag-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument","tag-nwhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}