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Your Life-Saving Gift Will Be Matched

Found with his flippers tucked tightly against his body, California sea lion Pockets looked like a sick child with a bellyache.

Pockets was battling a potentially fatal bacterial disease, leptospirosis. We've rescued nearly 500 sea lions affected by this year's intense outbreak.

With your matched gift, you’ll not only help provide the meals and advanced medical care needed to help a sea lion like Pockets recover, but also support our researchers in learning more about this disease.

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northern fur seal pup

Celebrate Giving Tuesday on December 2, 2025

Help marine mammals in need this Giving Tuesday!

Your generosity can go even further to help marine mammals in need.

Seals, sea lions and whales are struggling to survive—facing starvation, entanglement and other growing threats in a changing ocean. They’re counting on compassionate people like you to give them a second chance.

Your gift powers our team of veterinarians, scientists and volunteers who work tirelessly to rescue, rehabilitate and release animals back to their ocean home. And for Giving Tuesday, your gift will be matched—doubling your impact to help save more lives.

Please give now and be part of this global day of giving to help marine mammals and the ocean we share.

You Can Give a Marine Mammal a Second Chance

Want to See Your Support in Action? Go Behind the Scenes with Us!

You can get a behind-the-scenes peek at our Sausalito hospital and animal patients when you join us for one of our exciting LIVE events on Giving Tuesday.

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Behind the Scenes at The Marine Mammal Center: Patient Weight Checks

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California sea lion eating a fish

Behind the Scenes at The Marine Mammal Center: Feeding Our Patients

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Here's how your donation can save an entangled pup like Lucinda

$5 = 3 pounds of fish

Fish, fish and more fish! You can help feed a patient with your gift. 

$10 = 1 fish smoothie for 1 seal pup

You can help a patient like Lucinda get all the nutrition they need with a thick, rich smoothie of ground fish and salmon oil. Yum!

$25 = 1 day of medication for 1 seal pup

You can help ensure a patient gets the rehabilitative care and treatment they need to recover and be released back to the ocean.

$50 = 1 day of fish smoothies for 1 seal pup

Fish smoothies all day long! Yum!

$75 = 1 day of meals & meds for 1 seal pup

You will help feed and care for a patient like Lucinda until they are healthy enough to be released back to their ocean home with a second chance at life.

harbor seal pup Lucinda
Harbor seal pup Lucinda was rescued with fish hooks lodged in her flipper, tongue and stomach.
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