The Alaska SeaLife Center recently rescued two orphaned northern sea otter pups in two weeks, doubling the number of otter pups the center is currently caring for and marking an uptick in “orphaned, injured and deceased sea otter reports across the state this year.” According to a Nov. 17 press release, a female sea otter […]
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its preliminary summary of the 2025 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery season. The report found that although numbers of all salmon species besides sockeye were down, the 2025 cumulative yield of fish was 57% greater than the previous 20-year average annual exvessel exchange. The total exvessel value […]
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The story of Uki, a walrus who was rehabilitated at the Alaska SeaLife Center in August 2024, was featured on the season premiere of “Nature” by PBS on Wednesday. According to a press release from the Alaska SeaLife Center, the episode, “Walrus: Life on Thin Ice,” follows a paleontologist studying the challenges walruses face as […]
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In June, the Alaska SeaLife Center admitted a male spotted seal pup to its Wildlife Response Program. According to an Oct. 16 press release from ASLC, fewer than 10 spotted seals have ever been admitted to the facility. A community member called the ASLC’s Stranded Marine Animal Hotline after spotting the malnourished and lethargic seal […]
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Animal care team members from Shedd Aquarium in Chicago recently collaborated with the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward to help rehabilitate a stranded three-month-old sea otter pup. Six weeks ago, a community member called ASLC’s Stranded Marine Mammal Hotline after noticing a lone seal pup unusually far from the water in Homer. After hours of […]
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Sad news arrived Tuesday afternoon as the Alaska Zoo announced that Grubby, Homer’s beloved renegade opossum, passed away “peacefully” last weekend. The Virginia opossum arrived in Homer in the spring of 2023 after stowing away on a shipping container traveling from Washington state to Spenard Builders Supply. She was finally apprehended by the Homer Police […]
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The State Division of Agriculture last week issued a quarantine order for a pair of trees from the Prunus genus that it said have become invasive and displaced native flora in multiple areas of the state including the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Mayday trees and chokecherry trees are barred from being imported, transported or sold under […]
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Alaska State Troopers, the Kenai Police Department and the State Department of Fish and Game are searching for a bear that attacked a Kenai woman near her home early Tuesday morning. According to a dispatch from troopers, Kenai Police were first called around 7 a.m. and responded to Chinook Drive, just off the Kenai Spur […]
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Dozens gathered at North Kenai Beach on Thursday to watch the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program release a pair of young harbor seals into Cook Inlet. According to information posted to Facebook by the center, the two seals released last week were Zulu, who was admitted from Anchorage on June 3, and Copa, who […]
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When traveling to India, most people prioritize seeing the Taj Mahal and going barefoot into temples. While I am interested in all of that, I’ve always gravitated more towards wildlife and I knew that I wasn’t going to go all the way to India without seeing tigers. I traveled to India via Turkish Airlines, one […]
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After growing up 20 minutes from the Canadian border, going over often to drink at 19, play tourist at Niagara Falls, or head two hours into Canada to see Toronto during Christmas time, I’m no stranger to the joys of Canada. After moving upstate between Albany and Hudson, still close to the Canadian border, I […]
Read More After growing up 20 minutes from the Canadian border, going over often to drink at 19, play tourist at Niagara Falls, or head two hours into Canada to see Toronto during Christmas time, I’m no stranger to the joys of Canada. After moving upstate between Albany and Hudson, still close to the Canadian border, I […]
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Three new patients have joined the Alaska SeaLife Center’s “growing” patient list, the center announced in a July 1 press release, including two orphaned harbor seal pups and an orphaned male sea otter pup. The SeaLife Center now has 12 animals in rehabilitative care, many of which are still in critical condition and receiving “lifesaving” […]
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Three harbor seal pups were recently admitted to the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program, including a female pup found on a Homer beach, according to a June 4 release from the center. One of the pups — found alone on a beach in Petersburg on May 26 — was a male born prematurely. According […]
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