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Urgent: Get Your Gift Matched

The clock is ticking closer to the end of 2024, and this gift match! But there is still time to help a sick and injured marine mammal.  

Your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar by The James Boyce Trust up to $40,000, meaning your impact will go twice as far.  

Yes, you will be a marine mammal hero by helping providing double the meals and meds for a patient to return home.

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California sea lions Goldilocks (underneath) and Johnlou
Carlos Rios looking at a sample in the laboratory
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northern elephant seal Mardi peers up from inside an enrichment item made from PVC pipe, fake kelp and red buoys

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bearded seal on ice

Research Paper

Comparative Muscle Physiology of Ringed, Bearded, and Spotted Seals from the Bering and Chukchi Seas
researchers apply a satellite tag to a Guadalupe fur seal

Research Paper

Inhalant Anesthesia for Minimally Invasive Procedures in Guadalupe Fur Seals
researchers perform a necropsy on a dead gray whale on the beach

Research Paper

Gray Whale Post-Mortem Findings During the Unusual Mortality Event in the Eastern North Pacific
humpback whale breaches with Golden Gate Bridge in the background

Research Paper

New Urban Habitat for Endangered Humpback Whales: San Francisco Bay
gray whale with mouth open above water

Research Paper

Fish Feeding and Rapid Foraging Behavior Switching by Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in California
Hawaiian monk seal in the middle of a large plastic fishing net and buoys

Research Paper

Marine Mammals and Plastics in the Ocean