{"id":915,"date":"2010-08-03T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=915"},"modified":"2010-08-03T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:08:37","slug":"good-newsbad-news-for-hawaiian-monk-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/good-newsbad-news-for-hawaiian-monk-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news\/bad news for Hawaiian monk seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Good news\/bad news for Hawaiian monk seals, Earthsky.org, 3 August 2010<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jeff_walters_102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"104\" \/>Jeff Walters is the Hawaiian monk seal recovery coordinator for NOAA  Fisheries Service. Walters said that in the isolated northwest Hawaiian  islands, the number of monk seals is declining by four percent every  year. That\u2019s the bad news. But the good news is that a smaller  population of seals on the main Hawaiian islands is growing and  thriving, he said.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"272\" height=\"40\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"cachebusting\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"flashvars=&amp;duration=90&amp;file=http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/100802walters-90.mp3&amp;skin=http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/themes\/earthsky\/swf\/ES_skin_blue.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/themes\/earthsky\/swf\/player.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"272\" height=\"40\" src=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/themes\/earthsky\/swf\/player.swf\" flashvars=\"flashvars=&amp;duration=90&amp;file=http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/100802walters-90.mp3&amp;skin=http:\/\/earthsky.org\/wp-content\/themes\/earthsky\/swf\/ES_skin_blue.swf\" cachebusting=\"false\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Jeff Walters<\/em>: Over the past few years, we\u2019ve had twenty or more seals born in the main Hawaiian islands every year.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the main Hawaiian islands have a much larger human  population, the seals are doing better there because they don\u2019t have as  much competition for food, or as many predators, said Walters. But, he  added, when people try to feed or play with the seals, it runs the risk  of \u201ctaming\u201d them, which hurts the seal\u2019s chances of surviving in the  wild.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/biodiversity\/jeff-walters-with-the-good-newsbad-news-about-hawaiian-monk-seals#\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Good news\/bad news for Hawaiian monk seals, Earthsky.org, 3 August 2010 Jeff Walters is the Hawaiian monk seal recovery coordinator for NOAA Fisheries Service. Walters said that in the isolated northwest Hawaiian islands, the number of monk seals is declining by four percent every year. That\u2019s the bad news. But the good news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/good-newsbad-news-for-hawaiian-monk-seals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good news\/bad news for 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":[30,34,48],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-main-hawaiian-islands","tag-human-seal-interaction","tag-nwhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}