{"id":311332,"date":"2025-11-24T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/311332\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:13:11","slug":"man-grabs-sea-turtle-for-photo-in-hawaii-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/311332\/","title":{"rendered":"Man grabs sea turtle for photo in Hawaii, video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 24, 2025 3:50PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Man grabs sea turtle for photo in Hawaii, video shows\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man was caught on video picking up a sea turtle on a beach in Hawaii, sparking outrage among many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HAWAII (KABC) &#8212; A man was caught on video picking up a sea turtle on a beach in Hawaii, sparking outrage among many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the video, the man is seen grabbing and propping the animal up so a woman can take a picture. He then drops it back onto the sand and pats the sea turtle on its back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;My heart stopped&#8230; It was disturbing, disgusting,&#8221; said marine life advocate, Melina Clark. &#8220;It just showed once again that here we are in 2025, nothing has improved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles are protected under both state law and the federal <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/law\/endangered-species-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Endangered Species Act<\/a>. Even approaching one too closely can result in a citation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Harassing them is punishable by up to one year in jail in addition to a fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Conservation officers have taken a report and say they are in the early stages of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, November 24, 2025 3:50PM A man was caught on video picking up a sea turtle on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[160769,79,201],"class_list":["post-311332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-160769","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}