Each year thousands of marine mammals including dolphins, whales, pinnipeds, polar bears and sea otters strand on coastlines around the world because of oceanic noise, water pollution, starvation and disease. Imagine if you could change all that!
In a novel partnership, our unique team at Long Marine Lab is working on new solutions for preventing marine mammal strandings by revitalizing the lives of orphaned, retired, and injured dolphins and other marine species. The science of our ambassador animals is used to directly safeguard wild marine mammals including narwhals exposed to oceanic noise, polar bears navigating climate change, and highly endangered Hawaiian monk seals, Chinese dolphins, and Monterey Bay sea otters. Your help is needed now because of rapid declines in marine mammal populations and recent reductions in grants for marine mammal science.
Your gift will support the care of these remarkable animals, allowing them to teach us about their conservation biology. As little as $10 will provide a day of fish and training for a dolphin; larger gifts will be used to support the care of these special animals, and to develop new conservation research projects that partner dolphins, seals, polar bears, and otters working side-by-side with UCSC students, researchers and you to create healthier oceans.
$10
Receive a Thank-You Post Card from Doc Watson, the corgi.
$50
Receive a Thank-You Card with a photo of one of the LML Ambassador dolphins, sea otters or seals enclosed.
$100
Adopt KP2
You will receive a one of a kind toy Hawaiian monk seal, KP2, who is the star of his own book, “The Odyssey of KP2”.
$250
Receive a copy of “The Odyssey of KP2”, the story of UCSC marine biologist trying to save the Hawaiian monk seal. Autographed by Terrie M. Williams.
$500
Adopt your own “Real Seal”
You will receive a toy Hawaiian monk seal with its unique NMFS Identification number representing one of 1300 monk seals living in the Hawaiian Islands. Only 1300 seal toys were made, which means this is your own unique Real Seal!
$1000
Research Trainer Encounter
A Private session with you and one of our research trainers to meet the ambassador dolphins and conservation researchers of Long Marine Lab to learn about their science.
$10,000
Classroom Visit and Conservation Lesson
Professor Terrie Williams will visit your child’s school and present a 1 hour lesson about marine mammal conservation. (Travel TBD)
