Press Watch – Honolulu Star Bulletin, June 8, 2009
The Surfrider Foundation’s Kauai chapter is offering a reward — as yet unspecified — for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shooting death of two Hawaiian monk seals on Kauai.
The reward will come from donations to the organization, which so far total $8,000 in the aftermath of the deaths, officials said.
“The Surfrider Foundation was outraged that somebody would willfully kill these animals, who posed no real harm to people here on Kauai,” said Surfrider Foundation volunteer Carl Berg. “We felt there was a tremendous amount of disrespect for the ocean and the ocean creatures.” […]