{"id":342124,"date":"2025-12-13T07:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342124\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:14:06","slug":"b-c-rescuers-remove-rope-wrapped-around-sea-lions-neck-after-weeks-long-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342124\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. rescuers remove rope wrapped around sea lion’s neck after weeks-long effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rope around sea lion’s neck<\/p>\n

The Canadian Press – Dec 12, 2025 \/ 2:33 pm | Story: 589174<\/p>\n

\"Rescuers<\/p>\n

Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Rescuers say they have successfully freed a wild sea lion of a rope wrapped around its neck after a weeks-long operation. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout \u2014 Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society (Mandatory Credit)<\/p>\n

Marine mammal rescuers in British Columbia say a weeks-long operation has successfully freed a sea lion from a rope wrapped around its neck that was causing “rapidly worsening injuries.”<\/p>\n

The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society says the female Steller sea lion was spotted on Nov. 7 near Cowichan Bay off Vancouver Island, then throughout November and early December as its injuries deteriorated.<\/p>\n

The rescue effort by the society, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and supported by the Cowichan Tribes and local residents, was hampered by weather, darkness and the sea lion’s irregular movements.<\/p>\n

Rescuers monitored the animal by sea and with drones, and with the help of an online community group on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Finally, rescuers say a last-ditch effort on Tuesday resulted in the team successfully sedating the sea lion and removing the rope, which was wrapped around the animal’s neck four times.<\/p>\n

The society is urging residents to avoid discarding waste materials into the sea as they can be a major threat to the well-being of marine mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rope around sea lion’s neck The Canadian Press – Dec 12, 2025 \/ 2:33 pm | Story: 589174…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-342124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}