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Protect Habitat for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals

Target: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Sponsored by: Care2.com

The Hawaiian monk seal is one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world. Its population has plummeted to about 1,200 animals, and scientists say it will likely drop below 1,000 seals within a few years.

But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been resistant to protecting critical habitat. Three-quarters of the islands designated for Hawaiian monk seal habitat could be underwater before the end of the century thanks to global warming. Less than 50 years ago, one of the seals' chief breeding and resting places covered more than 110 acres. Today, only about 40 acres are left.

As beaches disappear under rising seas, there are fewer safe places for the endangered seals to escape from sharks. As a result, more pups and juveniles are dying. Further loss of habitat can only put these endangered seals at greater risk.

Help prevent the extinction of the Hawaiian monk seal. Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect critical habitat for this treasured part of Hawaii's natural heritage.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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We, the undersigned, are concerned for the future of the Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered seal species in the United States. We urge that critical habitat in the Main Hawaiian Islands receive legal protection as critical habitat necessary for preventing the extinction of the Hawaiian monk seal. Critical habitat designation would ensure management that is consistent with the requirements of the Endangered Species Act.

Since the mid 1950s, the monk seal population has declined rapidly, with only about 1,200 animals remaining. The threats from limited food sources, shark predation, global warming and sea level rise, entanglement in marine debris, disease, habitat loss and disturbance, fisheries interactions, and pollution are driving this already small population to the brink of extinction.

The Hawaiian monk seal has had designated habitat in a marine national monument at a remote archipelago northwest of Hawaii since 2006. Unfortunately, three-quarters of the islands in that sanctuary could be underwater before the end of the century thanks to global warming.

We signed the “Protect Habitat for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals” petition!

# 8,009:

12:05 pm PST, Feb 8, Name not displayed, Florida
SEALS ARE MY PREFERED ANIMALS.I WOULD LIKE TO HELP SAVE THEM.

# 8,008:

1:54 pm PST, Jan 31, Tanya Mitina, Russian Federation
We are human beings. we must take care of our smaller brothers

# 8,007:

10:28 am PST, Jan 31, Angela Rossi, Georgia

# 8,006:

1:20 am PST, Jan 31, Richard Hollister, Arizona

# 8,005:

6:26 pm PST, Jan 28, Cherylynn Costner, California
Extinction is forever, we have a duty to protect them from our destructive human impact to their habitat.

# 8,004:

9:02 am PST, Jan 25, Ingrid Andersson, Sweden

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8:14 am PST, Jan 24, Mathias Rodriguez, New York

# 8,002:

1:53 pm PST, Jan 22, Ali Odabash, New York
These beautiful and unique seals need their habitat to be protected, and we must save their species before global warming consumes all of their habitat.

# 8,001:

6:24 am PST, Jan 21, Justyna Gubala, Poland

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7:49 pm PST, Jan 20, Koehl Willy, France

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3:29 pm PST, Jan 19, Марина Шашеро, Russian Federation
Они такие же млекопитающие как и мы,но в тоже время абсолютно беззащитны перед нашим уродством и тупостью!!!ПОМОЖЕМ ИМ!!!!!

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2:23 am PST, Jan 17, Debbie Walker, Colorado
I care about ALL ANIMALS! Please protect God' creatures. Thank you, Debbie Walker

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2:35 pm PST, Jan 16, Monika Dudziak, Italy

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1:44 pm PST, Jan 16, Dean Edridge, New Zealand

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10:52 am PST, Jan 16, Anne Holmberg, Denmark

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9:27 am PST, Jan 16, Name not displayed, Russian Federation

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9:56 pm PST, Jan 14, Conni Kilman, Colorado

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5:56 pm PST, Jan 14, Cat Minich, Russian Federation

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12:32 pm PST, Jan 13, Name not displayed, Russian Federation

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6:23 am PST, Jan 11, Sarah Luchetta, California

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8:08 pm PST, Jan 9, Heather O'Keefe, Texas
I care about habitat for seals because they deserve and have just as much right as we do to live in an area and take care of their young. If we kill them off, we are no better than murders.

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7:35 pm PST, Jan 9, Melissa Kesler, Oklahoma

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2:56 pm PST, Jan 9, Julia Maeder, Germany

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3:36 am PST, Jan 9, Ioannis Zambartes, Greece

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7:31 am PST, Jan 8, Cathala Corine, France

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4:17 am PST, Jan 8, Nicolette Ludolphi, Germany

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2:23 pm PST, Jan 7, Gayla J. Gatling, Texas

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2:51 am PST, Dec 31, Victoria P., Ukraine

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1:34 pm PST, Dec 29, Oksana Akileva, Russian Federation
The killing of the living bodies is always awful. The are alive, they can feel, and they have their territory and rules.

# 7,980:

11:49 am PST, Dec 29, Usama Mnemonikk, Ukraine

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1:28 pm PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Russian Federation
because they're alive and have the right for life

# 7,978:

11:41 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Russian Federation
because it`s very bad to kill the animals.

# 7,977:

8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Anna Shantalova, Ukraine
please stop!:(

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2:26 pm PST, Dec 24, Tudor Groza, Italy

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11:59 am PST, Dec 24, Jesse Mcquerry, West Virginia

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12:56 pm PST, Dec 16, Shelekhova Viktory Shelekhova Viktory, Russian Federation
Потому что я против жестокости над животными

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3:28 pm PST, Dec 14, Nadia Davidovich, Argentina

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5:26 pm PST, Dec 13, Andrea Grabner, Indiana
they are living creatures just like us, and deserve a place to live safely.

# 7,971:

2:39 pm PST, Dec 11, Luis Eduardo Zuniga Moreno, Ecuador

# 7,970:

9:41 pm PST, Dec 10, Penny Gregorio, Hawaii

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1:29 pm PST, Dec 4, Ali Odaba, New York
They are part of Hawaii's natural heritage, and should not be left to ge extinct.

# 7,967:

6:19 pm PST, Dec 2, Marco Durepos, Canada

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2:23 am PST, Dec 2, Name not displayed, Japan

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11:34 am PST, Dec 1, Daniel Zeiger, California

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8:44 am PST, Dec 1, Love Animals Too, New York

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11:53 pm PST, Nov 28, Daryl Haynes, United Kingdom

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8:48 am PST, Nov 28, Lilya Tretyak, Russian Federation
The life is invaluable, and it is unimportant whose

# 7,960:

10:43 am PST, Nov 27, Kimberly Monnahan, Washington
They are endangered and should be rescued human beings who have made it nearly impossible for them to survive.

# 7,959:

1:22 am PST, Nov 26, Evangelia Manthoyianni, Greece

# 7,958:

11:49 pm PST, Nov 25, Anna Lee, Russian Federation

# 7,957:

5:20 pm PST, Nov 17, Ellie Shain, California

# 7,956:

2:39 pm PST, Nov 16, Melissa Mobeck, Washington

# 7,955:

10:31 am PST, Nov 13, Name not displayed, Russian Federation
(sorry for my bad English) Stop this mockery of the animals! can not kill these defenseless animals! I and many others people not consider it correct that you do!!!

# 7,954:

9:11 am PST, Nov 13, Theresia Cronan, California
Hawaiian monk seals are among the most endangered species of all seals, although its cousin species the Mediterranean Monk Seal (M. monachus) is even rarer, and the Caribbean Monk Seal (M. tropicalis), last sighted the 1950s, was officially declared extinct in June 2008.

# 7,953:

6:22 am PST, Nov 10, Romanyk Natalia, Russian Federation

# 7,952:

11:43 am PST, Nov 9, Victor Pashkov, Russian Federation

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5:00 am PST, Nov 9, Name not displayed, Russian Federation

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