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On April 14, NELHA helped the Marine Mammal Center / Ke Kai Ola load seven monk seals onto pickup trucks so they could be transported to an awaiting US Coast Guard airplane at Kona Airport. The seals have been rehabilitating at the MMC for the past six months. The volunteers placed the seals in transport cages, and NELHA loaded them onto pickup trucks using a forklift. There were four cages in total: three with two seals each and one with one seal. The seals will all be transported and returned to the locations where they were originally captured. One seal will be re-released on Niihau, another on French Frigate Shoals, and the rest at various locations within the northwest Hawaiian Islands. More details on this West Hawaii Today article.