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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Hawaiian Monk seals need privacy and breed in the remote and mostly uninhabited northern Hawaiian islands.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The lobster fishery is one of the threats to recovery of the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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This last characteristic does not hold true for Hawaiian monk seals, which seem to prefer a solitary life and rarely are found in groups.
Hawaiian monk seals are extremely sensitive to human activity.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Since 1972, divers have found 170 endangered Hawaiian monk seals entangled in nets.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Hawaiian green sea turtles, brilliantly colored fish and sometimes the playful and endangered Hawaiian monk seals frequent the area.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Hawaiian monk seals are protected outside the United States through provisions in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
In the early nineteenth century, Hawaiian monk seals, which were taken for their oil and pelts, suffered the same mass hunting as many of the other fur seals of the world.
For example, the entire world population of endangered Hawaiian monk seals is found in this region, with areas designated as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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In addition to habitat destruction, endangered Hawaiian monk seals and other marine species become entangled in marine debris.
Hawaiian Monk Seals on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
Hawaiian monks seals are the most endangered marine mammal in North America and Hawaii.
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