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The Marine Mammal Center will be expanding to Maui its programs designed to help Hawaiian monk seals.
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A Hawaiian monk seal under intensive care at the Marine Mammal Center in Kailua-Kona died last week. RW22, also known as Kolohe, suffered from malnutrition, swallowed fishing gear, and toxoplasmosis — a parasite that comes from cat feces.
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A Hawaiian monk seal found on Oʻahu in critical condition was transported to the Marine Mammal Center in Kailua-Kona for further treatment.
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A Hawaiian monk seal pup named ʻEleu was rehabilitated to full health and released back to the wild after she was discovered malnourished in the northwestern Hawaiian islands.
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The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office talks about exceeding morgue capacity, using refrigerated containers; a Hawaiʻi Island octopus farm shares how things are going with raising cephalopods and managing tours; and we revisit our discussion with the Library of Congress on including Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World in the National Recording Registry
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Researchers say an endangered Hawaiian monk seal has made an exceptionally fast and long swim across the archipelago. The 6-year-old female seal made her way from Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to the North Shore of Oʻahu — a trip of about 1,300 miles.
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Discarded commercial fishing gear can pollute the Hawaiian coastline, harming native marine life. Hagfish traps in particular are harming Hawaiian monk seal pups.
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U.S. authorities say a Louisiana woman who was honeymooning in Hawaii has been fined $500 after a social media video showed her touching an endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
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Entanglement in fishing gear likely caused the drowning death of the 1-year-old Hawaiian monk seal RM90, also known as Mele, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers determined.
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We round out the week on The Conversation with a look at our relationship to the ocean. A plan to modernize the Honolulu Harbor could make us more resilient against natural disasters while citizen science organizations are partnering with the state to collect better data on our water quality. And what really happened to our native monk seal Mele?