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Hawaiian official endorses “find out” as wildlife enforcement strategy

Boing Boing·Jason Weisberger·20 days ago
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Cute endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal playing on a beach on Oahu, Hawaii After a tourist hurled a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, one local resident reportedly responded with the kind of rapid peer review that skips the comment section entirely, and a Hawaii state senator gave him an award for the effort. Awa called the vigilante an "ambassador of aloha" for taking matters into his own hands and what he viewed as educating tourists about what can happen if they mess with Hawaiian land or animals. Awa didn't refer to the Hawaiian by name, saying they want to keep him anonymous. It appears Awa wasn't just presenting the letter as a novelty. He suggested the footage should be shown on incoming flights, presumably as a warning to tourists. "We see this all the time with people with a different type of mentality coming in and destroying our stuff. We'd like the airline(s) to play this type of video on all flights incoming, so that people don't do this type of stuff,"  he said.…

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