PMLF Helps Finance Interventional Research

Recovery work is underway at Midway Atoll to save the Hawaiian monk seal population. Conducted by the Hawaii Wildlife Fund, to whom PMLF is making substantial contributions, the program is both research and interventional in nature.

Their recovery is threatened by new sport-fishing, diving and eco-touring which bring more and more people to their sanctuary. Entanglements in marine debris, including netting and long lines, are deadly and tragic. Education of residents and tourists, as well as monitoring of seals -- and freeing them from nets and lines -- is the interventional aspect of HWF's mission.

Additionally, the organization is conducting research to define beach use, survival and inter atoll movement, prey species preferences plus rates of entanglement. This information will be used by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, among other agencies, in making decisions about monk seal recovery and management of future human activities at Midway.

Monk Seal Study | Migrational Survey | Interventional Research | Spinner Dolphin Study

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