Press Watch — Honolulu Advertiser, June 19, 2009
Beach ceremony mourns Miloli’i Mom and playful young I-19
PO’IPU, Kaua’i — Holding a strand of limu kala, a seaweed signifying forgiveness, Sabra Kauka asked people at a ceremony yesterday for two slain Hawaiian monk seals to educate others about the endangered animals.
“They are the kama’aina to the kai,” Kauka said. “They come to land to rest, but the rest of the time their lives are in the sea. This is their home,” the teacher and kumu hula said as the ocean sparkled behind her at Po’ipu Beach Park.
About 100 people gathered to mourn the killings of two monk seals on Kaua’i in the past two months. Kauka took the ashes of the animals into the ocean on a canoe to close the event. […]