Hi readers, let’s help The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC) build a new hospital for sick or injured Hawaiian monk seals in Kona on the Big Island. TMMC recently launched a $2 million campaign to build this much needed healthcare facility. If TMMC raises the necessary $2 million by August 31, 2010, the hospital would be up and running by December 2010. So far they’ve raised $290,000. Please donate what you can, no amount is too small. Click here to donate now.
About the Hawaiian monk seal (courtesy of The Marine Mammal Center):
Today, more than 30 years later, it has the unfortunate status as the most endangered pinniped in the United States. Over the last 30 years, significant efforts have been made to enhance the recovery of the species, but its population has declined at a rate of 4% per year for the past decade, and there are now fewer than 1,100 Hawaiian monk seals left in existence. Moreover, a newborn monk seal has only a 1 in 5 chance of surviving to adulthood. This is dismal news for a species found only in Hawaii and that has been in existence for more than 13 million years.
About The Marine Mammal Center:
The Marine Mammal Center is a nonprofit veterinary research hospital and educational center dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of ill and injured marine mammals – primarily elephant seals, harbor seals, and California sea lions. Since 1975, we’ve been headquartered in Sausalito, CA in the Marin Headlands within the Golden Gate National Parks, and have rescued and treated more than 15,000 marine mammals.
