H’mmm I can just see the announcement: EPA declares that the decreased spotting of SEALS at Norfolk indicates that it is an endangered species and orders all residents and within 100 miles north and south along the coast line and 20 miles inland be evacuated and all structures be torn down so as to return the Norfolk area to its pristine environment that enabled a large SEAL population to exist between 1000 BC and 1600 AD.
These SEALS are already an endangered species. And so are their families.