{"id":506,"date":"2009-10-23T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=506"},"modified":"2009-10-23T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T11:13:56","slug":"sealed-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/23\/sealed-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealed fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch, Honolulu Star Bulletin, <span>October 22, 2009 <\/span><\/h5>\n<h4>Molokai residents say a federal agency should not have removed a Hawaiian monk seal without their consent<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/media.starbulletin.com\/images\/20091022_loc_seal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/>Molokai residents flew to Oahu to protest a federal agency&#8217;s removal of a nearly blind Hawaiian monk seal from waters off Kaunakakai.<\/p>\n<p>The residents, who held signs yesterday in front of the Waikiki Aquarium where the seal was taken, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration removed the seal known as &#8220;KP2&#8221; without consulting the Molokai community.<\/p>\n<p>They also said the seal should have been treated for cataracts months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kids loved that seal,&#8221; said Molokai resident Karen Holt. &#8220;There was no opportunity to say goodbye. Nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keiko Bonk, the Hawaii program director for the Marine Conservation Biology Institute&#8217;s monk seal campaign, said there needs to be more communication between the community and NOAA seal recovery officials.<\/p>\n<p>Hanohano Naehu, who lives on Molokai, said federal officials need to find a better way of working with Hawaii residents in the recovery of the monk seals, especially with the animal&#8217;s numbers increasing on the island. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbulletin.com\/news\/hawaiinews\/20091022_sealed_fate.html\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch, Honolulu Star Bulletin, October 22, 2009 Molokai residents say a federal agency should not have removed a Hawaiian monk seal without their consent Molokai residents flew to Oahu to protest a federal agency&#8217;s removal of a nearly blind Hawaiian monk seal from waters off Kaunakakai. The residents, who held signs yesterday in front &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/23\/sealed-fate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sealed fate&#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":[8,9,10,38],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-rescue","tag-rehabilitation","tag-release","tag-kp2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}