{"id":825089,"date":"2026-08-25T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:46:09","slug":"noaa-investigate-death-of-adult-female-monk-seal-found-in-west-oahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825089\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA investigate death of adult female monk seal found in West Oahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Another Hawaiian monk seal has been found dead on Oahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NOAA Fisheries confirmed the death of adult female monk seal RL70, whose carcass was found on a West Oahu beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The seal was discovered with rocks covering its body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NOAA said the cause of death is unknown. Samples were collected for analysis and could provide more information about what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RL70\u2019s death marks the fifth confirmed Hawaiian monk seal death on Oahu this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who finds an injured, entangled or dead Hawaiian monk seal is asked to call the statewide NOAA Marine Wildlife Hotline at (888) 256-9840.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Another Hawaiian monk seal has been found dead on Oahu. NOAA Fisheries confirmed the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-825089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825089","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=825089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}