Hawaii gave up funding for marine mammal protection because of cumbersome paperwork

For years, the state officers who enforce Hawaii’s conservation laws boosted their patrols and resources under a special partnership that helped their federal counterparts, who are thinly stretched across the islands, enforce their own laws on native species.

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