Environmental

NOAA Grants to Aid Marine Mammal Rescue and Stranding Programs

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016.  Today, NOAA Fisheries awarded nearly $3 million in grants to support the conservation and recovery of protected marine species through stranding response and marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation.

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Two Hawaiian monk seals, Pearl and Hermes, are undergoing rehabilitation at the Ke Kai Ola hospital in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. "Ke Kai Ola" is Hawaiian for "The Healing Sea."

Through the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, NOAA awarded 32 grants to nonprofit organizations, aquariums, universities, and coastal state, local and tribal governments that are members of the National Marine Mammal Stranding Network.

Recipients will use their…

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