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Jun 11, 2024 · With more than 30 years of research and management experience with Hawaiian monk seals, NOAA Fisheries is currently working across the archipelago to address the population decline, and recovery actions are making a measurable difference—up to 30 percent of the monk seals in the population today are alive as a result of direct recovery interventions to save individual seals and allow them to ...
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In 2021, at least three monk seals were shot or bludgeoned to death on Molokaʻi. Unfortunately, people killing seals on purpose is one of the top three threats affecting MHI monk seal recovery. Hookings. In the MHI, monk seals are injured and sometimes die from hooking when taking bait or fish from the lines of nearshore fishermen.
Jan 31, 2023 · Around 1,200 Hawaiian monk seals—the majority of the current population—occupy the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In the past few decades, however, a population of about 350-400 individuals has recolonized the Main Hawaiian Islands. The majority of a monk seal’s time is spent at sea, patrolling the seafloor for fish, octopus, and crustaceans.
May 17, 2018 · Rare, endangered Hawaiian monk seal faces challenges. The Hawaiian monk seal is endangered and very rare, with only around 1,400 in the world. Most live in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where females give birth on sandy beaches, nesting and nursing their pups. And it’s not just seals in need of these low-lying habitats.
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Nov 13, 2024 · Hawaiian monk seal mom and pup at Sand Island, Honolulu with regular camping activity outside of the Seal Resting Area (SRA). Credit: Hawaiʻi Marine Animal Response (NOAA Fisheries Permit #24359) One concerning issue for the pup is growing up in a busy urban environment, like Sand Island State Recreation Area.
Monk seals -- the only completely tropical species of seal in the world -- are in trouble. Centuries of human exploitation and habitat destruction have caused the remaining populations of Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) and Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) to drop to perilously low numbers, while the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) has become extinct.
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So what makes the Hawaiian Monk Seal so important compared to other seals, and why should conservation efforts go towards preserving them? Hawaii’s First Native Sea Mammal. About 1100 monk seals left in the wild, its demise would make a greater historic impact than the demise of a species that had not welcomed humans onto the islands of Hawaii.
