Skip to main content

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.

Match my life-saving gift
California sea lion
endangered

Kaileʻa

Hawaiian Monk Seal
Neomonachus schauinslandi

Book a Tour to Meet Our Patients

This patient is a Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered marine mammal species in the United States. As a species endemic to Hawai´i, they can only be found in the Main Hawaiian Islands and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 

We often see stranded monk seals suffering from malnutrition or maternal separation. Other common threats this species faces are disease, predation, entanglement and negative human interactions.



photo © The Marine Mammal Center / NOAA permit #24359

Age at Admit
Pup
Sex
Female
Rescue Location
Molokaʻi
Cause of Death
Trauma
Admitted
07/24/2019
Status
Deceased
Deceased Date
08/03/2019

Meet Similar Patients

hawaiian monk seal r8ha
endangered
Hawaiian Monk Seal — Male
Released
endangered
Hawaiian Monk Seal — Female
Released
Hawaiian monk seal RK58
endangered

RK58

Hawaiian Monk Seal — Male
Released