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People Usually Get Away With Harming Hawai‘i’s Seals Despite Tourist Case
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
People Usually Get Away With Harming Hawai‘i’s Seals Despite Tourist Case

A Seattle visitor was arrested a week after lobbing a rock at an endangered seal on Maui. But cases involving people killing the seals are rarely prosecuted.

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