NEW: Tourist who threw a rock at a seal in Hawaii because he was "rich" enough to pay any fines has been arrested by federal agents.
Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, was arrested for throwing a massive rock at Lani the seal.
Lytvynchuk was beaten by locals after throwing the rock and has now been taken into custody.
Lani is just one of 1,600 monk seals left.
According to the complaint, when a witness confronted Lytvynchuk, he said: "He did not care and was 'rich' enough to pay any fine."
"Lani is a reminder that humanity and the instinct to protect what is vulnerable are still values people can unite around," said Maui Mayor Richard Bissen.
Lytvynchuk is facing a fine of up to $50,000 under the Endangered Species Act as well as another fine of up to $20,000 under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Despite being "rich," money may not buy Lytvynchuk out of all his problems, as he faces up to a year in prison.
El presidente Nayib Bukele sorprendió al comentar en TikTok el video de una niña y ofrecerle una beca universitaria completa tras ver la creatividad con la que lleva su cuaderno de estudio.
I played with Elina in 2015, but never performed. I was about to, but I had an emergency:
We’d just played the overture and I was called off stage and informed that my wife was in an ambulance with chest pains. When asked what I wanted to do, I said “I’m out” and ran out of the hall in my tuxedo, left my clarinets on stage.
As I ran out the door the last thing I heard over the PA was the clarinet solo echoing the opening, played by my colleague on no rehearsal. “It’s gonna be ok” I thought as I sprinted for my car.
Sadly my wife was not ok, passing away two days later. I always think of this when I hear the Sibelius Violin Concerto now, in a way it was the perfect piece for the occasion, the ultimate expression of loneliness.
Here’s Elina playing it that same year, the music of her people. Hope her violin is ok:
Doug Tompkins co-founded The North Face in 1966. He sold his share a few years later for $50,000. The real money came later, from a clothing brand called Esprit that he built with his first wife. He walked away from fashion in his forties and spent the rest of his life buying up wild land in South America and giving it away as national parks.
He died in 2015. His kayak flipped on a freezing Chilean lake while he was paddling with friends, including Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia (the clothing company). Doug spent almost two hours in near-freezing water before he was pulled out. The hypothermia killed him. He was 72.
The 800,000 hectares everyone keeps posting (about 2 million acres) is just the land Doug and his wife personally handed over. Kris took over after he died. She had been the CEO of Patagonia, the same clothing brand Yvon founded, named after the very region the couple was busy protecting. In 2018 Kris handed a million acres of their own land to the government of Chile. It is still the biggest land gift any private group has ever made to a country. Chile thanked them by upgrading nine million more acres of nearby state land to national park status.
Add it all up and you get about 15 million acres now protected across Chile and Argentina. More land than all of Switzerland. Thirteen new national parks have been created, with several more expanded. A 1,700-mile road called the "Route of Parks" connects them, running from the middle of Chile down to the bottom tip of South America. More than 90% of Chile's protected land is now in Patagonia.
Buying the land was just step one. They also brought in biologists to put the missing animals back. Jaguars are back in Argentina's wetlands after 70 years gone. So are giant otters, small native deer, and Andean condors (the huge South American vultures with wingspans up to 10 feet).
The latest piece is being finalized this spring. Chile is about to declare Cape Froward, at the very southern tip of the continent, the country's 47th national park. The land came from another 314,000 acres (about the size of Grand Teton) that Kris's foundation transferred to the Chilean government in late 2025.
Doug got the project off the ground. Kris closed the biggest pieces after he was gone. More than three decades of work, four hundred million dollars of their own money, and roughly 15 million acres now protected as national parkland.
I love how jewelry is a central part of so many great love stories.
Named after his wife Angela and with 37 facets to represent their 37 years of marriage, the Angel cut is a monument to love, his Tahj Mahal.
#JanisGems
caminhando pela praia e vejo essa cena de um senhor hospitalizado vendo o mar com a equipe médica
só sei que ela me trouxe muita esperança e um quentinho no coração