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$30,000 reward offered to solve killings of critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals
HONOLULU (AP) ' Up to $30,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects involved in the recent slayings of three Hawaiian monk seals, whose population is on the brink of extinction.
Desperately seeking to end the mysterious series of killings of the critically endangered species, the state and animal protection groups on Wednesday announced the reward ' believed to be the highest ever in Hawaii in a wildlife case.
Two seals were found bludgeoned to death on Molokai, and a slain seal was recently found on Kauai. Up to $10,000 is being offered in each of the killings.
There are only 1,100 Hawaiian monk seals left, and scientists say the species is on course to vanish in 50 to 100 years.
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