Sentences with phrase «monk seal population»

October 15, 2015 More than 1 % of critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal population has received life - saving care thanks to The Marine Mammal Center

These factors, along with an inherently slow reproductive rate, continue to threaten the remaining Hawaiian monk seal population.

Researchers report in Conservation Letters this week that the monk seal population in Hawaii's Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument is shrinking by about 4 percent a year, while a sub-population of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands next door — where fishing, development and boat activity are permitted — is increasing by 7 percent a year.

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First reported by Columbus in 1494, the Caribbean monk seal ranged throughout the Caribbean with an estimated population in the hundreds of thousands.

As the alleged evidence that feral cats are a major threat to wild bird populations evaporates, ailurophobes have amplified claims that free - roaming cats are to blame for outbreaks of the parasitic protozoan infection Toxoplasma gondii that were first found to afflict California sea otters in 2002,» causing about 17 % of identified deaths, and have killed at least eight Hawaiian monk seals in 2015 alone.

Meanwhile, Wolf continued, «The population of monk seals is actually increasing.

In the sparsely populated Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where their largest population is found,» National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lead scientist for monk seal recovery Charles Littman reported what he called, «The highest levels that we've seen in decades, and in some places, the highest levels in survival that we've seen in 30 years.»

Since opening the hospital two years ago, The Marine Mammal Center's veterinary experts have successfully rehabilitated more than 1 percent of the population, returning 15 healthy monk seals back to the wild.