Feds: Monk Seal Rescue Efforts Working

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About-one fifth of the monk seal population is alive today due to federal recovery efforts, including cutting seals free from fishing nets and  moving pups away from sharks, KHON reports.  

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show about one-fifth of the roughly 1,100 Hawaiian monk seals in the world are alive today because of interventions to save them, their mother or their grandmother between 1994 and 2009.

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