{"id":794,"date":"2010-06-10T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=794"},"modified":"2010-06-10T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:49:16","slug":"endangered-hawaiian-monk-seal-given-stronger-protection-under-new-hawaii-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/10\/endangered-hawaiian-monk-seal-given-stronger-protection-under-new-hawaii-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Hawaiian monk seal given stronger protection under new Hawaii law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch, Hawai&#8217;i Magazine.com, 9 June 2010<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiimagazine.com\/images\/content\/endangered_Hawaiian_monk_seal_stronger_protection_law\/Hawaiian_Monk_Seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"211\" \/>A bill seeking tougher penalties for anyone caught intentionally harming  the Hawaiian monk seal, or other endangered Hawaii species, became  state law this week.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii Lt. Gov. James \u201cDuke\u201d Aiona signed  Senate Bill 2441 into law, making the intentional harassing, harming or  killing of a monk seal\u2014or any endangered or threatened Hawaii species\u2014a  class C felony. The new Hawaii law extends punishment already imposed by  violations of the federal Endangered Species Act, to include a fine of  up to $50,000 and five years in prison. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiimagazine.com\/blogs\/hawaii_today\/2010\/6\/9\/endangered_Hawaiian_monk_seal_stronger_protection_law\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch, Hawai&#8217;i Magazine.com, 9 June 2010 A bill seeking tougher penalties for anyone caught intentionally harming the Hawaiian monk seal, or other endangered Hawaii species, became state law this week. Hawaii Lt. Gov. James \u201cDuke\u201d Aiona signed Senate Bill 2441 into law, making the intentional harassing, harming or killing of a monk seal\u2014or any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/10\/endangered-hawaiian-monk-seal-given-stronger-protection-under-new-hawaii-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Endangered Hawaiian monk seal given stronger protection under new 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],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-direct-killing","tag-main-hawaiian-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}