- A Washington tourist was caught on video allegedly throwing a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal and is facing federal harassment charges in Honolulu.
- The man’s lawyer says he was trying to protect sea turtles, and that the client has since been physically assaulted, threatened and doxed.
- Hawaiian monk seals are critically endangered (about 1,600 left); the charges carry up to a year in jail and substantial fines.
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