{"id":229034,"date":"2026-03-20T20:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:15:24","slug":"south-bay-animal-hospital-releases-rehabilited-sea-lions-back-into-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229034\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay Animal Hospital Releases Rehabilited Sea Lions Back Into Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES COUNTY \u2014 Three rehabilitated sea lion pups that had been found injured and malnourished months earlier were returned to the sea in Redondo Beach today.<\/p>\n<p>The sea lions had been rescued and rehabilitated by the San Pedro-based animal hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/marinemammalcare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, more than 100 people gathered on the beach near the Redondo pier to watch the pups scramble into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held to &#8220;highlight the important role California sea lions play in the state&#8217;s coastal ecosystem and underscore the need to recognize and protect California&#8217;s most iconic marine mammal,&#8221; according to a statement from event organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Among those on hand was Sen. Laura Richardson, D-San Pedro, who used the event to announce proposed legislation, SB 1286, that would establish the California sea lion as the official state pinniped &#8212; a fin- or flipper-footed marine mammal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pinnipeds play a very important role in terms of our ecosystem, what they eat, how they help clean the area so that we can have beautiful beaches like this,&#8221; Richardson told CBS LA.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES COUNTY \u2014 Three rehabilitated sea lion pups that had been found injured and malnourished months earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-229034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}