Open young eyes to a new world. Each year, 30,000 school children learn to appreciate marine mammals through educational programs from The Marine Mammal Center.
Pick up where nature left off or where man interfered. Injured or malnourished marine mammals are nursed back to health then returned to the wild.
Affirm the importance of ocean health. Marine mammals and humans eat from the same food chain; their health is directly related to ours.
Bring new life to endangered species. Artemis, rescued as a pup, gives birth to a Stellar sea lion pup of her own on Año Nuevo Island.
Advance ocean rescue techniques. When a humpback whale was entangled in crab pot nets off the San Francisco coast, rescue divers cut her free.
Click on any of the pictures you see on the right to adopt a marine mammal - or adopt them all! You may also place an order by calling (415) 289-7339.
What they get:
Each Adopt-a-Seal® represents thousands of other patients that need The Marine Mammal Center’s help. Your tax-deductible gift will help us buy fish and medicine for current patients and to supporting our mission of rescuing and caring for seals, sea lions, dolphins and other marine mammals that need help. Donations also fund research into marine mammal diseases and education about the importance of ocean health.
What you get:
For a minimum donation of $30, you will receive:
photo of your adoptee
personalized certificate of adoption
animal biography
recent issue of our newsletter, Release
satisfaction you have helped a marine mammal in distress
NEW! You can also join our Adopt-a-Seal® Marine Mammal of the month club. For one year (minimum $300),you or your loved one will receive a series of different marine mammal adoptees, complete with their biography and color photo (13 total). You’ll also receive one edition of the most current newsletter, Release. Your first Adopt-a-Seal® will arrive within 2 weeks, and the others will be shipped each month after. It will make a lasting impression! Click here to join the Marine Mammal of the Month club
For an additional $10, we’ll include The Marine Mammal Center’s calendar.* The calendar features compelling color photography and stories about the patients that we treat. *From January through September, the current year calendar is available. From late October through December, the next year’s calendar is available.
Also available for an additional $10 is a copy of Smithsonian’s Sea Lion Roars, a children’s book (ages 5-9) chronicling a sea lion pup rescue by The Marine Mammal Center.
