Hundreds of spectators and at least 20 volunteers with Hawai'i Marine Animal Response gathered at Kaimana Beach to watch the release of an injured female Hawaiian Green Sea turtle (Honu).  A volunteer with the Non-Profit stated the animal was at least 13 years old and rescued at remediated before its morning release.  

Local Media, Police, and Volunteers lined the pathways leading into the ocean.  

Hawai'i Marine Animal Response (HMAR) is the largest Hawai'i-based nonprofit marine species field response, rescue, stranding support and conservation organization. 

They state!  

Our mission is to undertake substantial actions that result in the preservation, recovery and stewardship of Hawai’i’s marine protected species and the ocean ecosystem we share. Thousands of times each year, our field response, interventions, rescue, stranding support and outreach activities help us move towards our vision of Hawai’i’s ocean ecosystem shared in sustainable harmony by humans and marine protected animals such as Hawaiian monk seals, sea turtles, dolphins, whales and seabirds.

You can watch the event in its entirety on our channel  

Volunteers with Hawai'i Marine Animal Response get ready to lower the bed of the transport pickup! 

A line soon formed 

Cell phones and cheers as she briskly excited the carrier heading off into the abyss.  

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