{"id":674,"date":"2010-02-01T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=674"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:43:02","slug":"fewer-hawaiian-monk-seal-pups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/fewer-hawaiian-monk-seal-pups\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Hawaiian monk seal pups"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch, Honolulu Advertiser, February 1, 2010<\/h5>\n<h4>Population down to about 1,100 in  Isles, with annual decline of 4% each year<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=M1&amp;Date=20100201&amp;Category=NEWS01&amp;ArtNo=2010346&amp;Ref=AR&amp;MaxW=298&amp;Q=90&amp;NoBorder\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"237\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries\/NMFS MMPA\/ESA <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2009 Hawaiian monk seal breeding season produced the fewest pups in  at least 10 years as the highly endangered marine mammal species  continued its slide toward possible extinction.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA Fisheries biologists counted 119 seal pups born in the  Northwestern Hawaiian Islands last year, compared with 138 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Charles  Littnan, lead scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric  Administration&#8217;s Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, said the  numbers are discouraging, even though monk seal sightings are becoming  more frequent in the main Hawaiian Islands, where 15 births were  recorded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still seeing a pretty steady decline. Every location (in the  Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) was down this year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>There  are an estimated 1,100 monk seals in the Islands. With the population  declining at a rate of 4 percent annually, biologists predict their  numbers will dip below 1,000 in the next three to four years, making the  Hawaiian monk seal one of the world&#8217;s rarest species. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100201\/NEWS01\/2010346\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch, Honolulu Advertiser, February 1, 2010 Population down to about 1,100 in Isles, with annual decline of 4% each year The 2009 Hawaiian monk seal breeding season produced the fewest pups in at least 10 years as the highly endangered marine mammal species continued its slide toward possible extinction. NOAA Fisheries biologists counted 119 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/fewer-hawaiian-monk-seal-pups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fewer Hawaiian monk seal pups&#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-674","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}