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New Home For A Monk Seal
NOAA tagged Lōli‘i and took blood and tissue samples before the seal was released on a wildlife protected beach. PHOTO COURTESY LANCE CPL. ISAIAH HILL
Marine Corps Base Ha- wai‘i recently welcomed a new resident. Back in June, Hawaiian monk seal pup Lō- li‘i was transferred to the base for protection from crowds on Waikīkī beach.
“What happens after about six weeks of nursing is the mother seal abruptly leaves,” states Angela Amlin, a coor- dinator with Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery for the Nation- al Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
sources manager for MCBH Environmental Compliance and Protection Division.
be taken off the endangered list,” Bookless explains.
She explains that as the pup is learning to be social, it can become socialized to humans, which can lead to harmful in- teractions with people when the seal is full-grown.
He added that NOA A asked to release the pup at the base. Lōli‘i was transported to MCBH on June 10 and re- leased on a wildlife-protected beach.
The partnership with NOAA is important to MC- BH’s mission of protecting and preserving the wildlife of Hawai‘i.
“In May, we got a call from NOAA,” states Lance Book- less, the senior natural re-
“The whole purpose of try- ing to protect them is so they can rebuild the population and someday they may be able to
The public is encouraged to report sightings of Hawaiian monk seals or injured marine mammals and sea turtles to the NOAA Marine Wildlife hotline at 888-256-9840.
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