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A sea lion pup sickened by a toxic algae bloom along the coast of Southern California recuperates with its mother in a pen at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro. A patient at the Marine Mammal Care Center, which cares for California sea lions, elephant seals and harbor seals. “It made me realize I need to get off …

Marine mammals are penned in as they recuperate at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro in 2023. City leaders and residents scrambled to help as the nonprofit Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro worked to rescue and rehabilitate ill seals, sea lions and dolphins. She commended city leaders and the Marine Mammal Care Center for setting up …

When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help a stranded dolphin or porpoise, they have no choice but to treat the endangered animal on site and then immediately release it. The organization, which protects animals worldwide, is opening a first-of-its-kind short-term dolphin hospital on Cape Cod …

Dr. Alissa Deming, left, and veterinarian assistant Malena Berndt give medicine to sea lion Patsy at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach in June. But “it’s not like this is a rabid sea lion running down the beach chasing people and biting them,” said Dr. Alissa Deming of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach. It’s not …

HONOLULU — U.S. authorities on Tuesday offered a $5,000 reward for information on who killed a Hawaiian monk seal after one of the critically endangered animals was found dead on Oahu this year. Last year, Malama was treated for malnutrition at the Marine Mammal Center’s Hawaiian monk seal hospital on the Big Island. The Hawaiian monk seal is one of …

Scientists from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center of Laguna Beach take samples and study an endangered fin whale that washed up Wednesday at Bolsa Chica State Beach. A 65-foot dead whale was found washed up on Bolsa Chica State Beach on Wednesday. Workers from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, located in Laguna Beach, also were on site Thursday to gather …

25% of Marine Mammals are On Path to Extinction. Climate Change, Fisheries are to Blame

A new study has revealed that at least 25% of marine mammals could be at the risk of extinction as climate change, fisheries, bycatch, pollution and maritime development continue to adversely impact their lives. Even though, she says, very few marine mammal species have gone extinct in modern times, human activities are "putting many of them under increasing pressure". the …

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At least 25% of marine mammals are on the path to EXTINCTION, study finds

A new study reveals many of the world's marine mammals are at a crossroad – some are on the verge of extinction, while others are on the road to recovery. The published paper also notes that 98 percent of all marine mammal species are at some level of risk in 56 percent of the ocean. The analysis determined the near-extinct …

On a former Cold War missile base perched high above the Golden Gate Bridge, in what is now the largest marine mammal hospital in the world, Frances Gulland still remembers the shock she felt when she first started working here as a veterinarian 26 years ago. “Sea lions, they’re coming up on the beach, using the same waters that we …