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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWarming oceans have flooded California with starving sea lion pups
http://qz.com/351927/warming-oceans-have-flooded-california-with-starving-sea-lion-pups/Only a few months after thousands of walruses found refuge from the ice-less ocean on the Alaskan coast, hundreds of sea lion pups off the coast of California are stranded through central and southern Californias shoresin Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego countiesfor essentially the same reason: The ocean is too warm.
They are starving and they are dying....
This means that about 0.4% of the total California sea lions population, currently estimated at around 300,000 individuals, has been affected. It is yet unclear how many of the stranded pups have died, because its hard to tell the number of those who may have died before reaching the coast.
At the moment, 640 sea lions are hosted in seven rescue facilities selected by the NOAA along the West coast. The remaining have been released to the wild after rehabilitation, or have died.
They are starving and they are dying....
This means that about 0.4% of the total California sea lions population, currently estimated at around 300,000 individuals, has been affected. It is yet unclear how many of the stranded pups have died, because its hard to tell the number of those who may have died before reaching the coast.
At the moment, 640 sea lions are hosted in seven rescue facilities selected by the NOAA along the West coast. The remaining have been released to the wild after rehabilitation, or have died.
Learn to swim.
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Warming oceans have flooded California with starving sea lion pups (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2015
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applegrove
(118,844 posts)1. Too sad.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. That photo is heart-breaking...knr
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. Pray harder!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. Awww! How sad!
Poor little babies.
dhill926
(16,373 posts)5. had one on our beach the other day...
heartbreaking...
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)6. So I am reading your article on the seals
and scroll down -- wham all of a sudden I am reading about furs: "There's actually a way to feel good about wearing them." For a second, I thought they were referring to the baby seals. That was bad newsfeed placement!!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)7. Sea lions are not the same as seals
seals don't have ears.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)9. Oops
I did not know that about baby sea lions. They look so fragile.
flvegan
(64,419 posts)8. Read further: lack of food.
Go vegan, stop taking from them.
Learn to eat properly, without selfishness.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)10. What seafood do we and sea lions compete for?