#stellarsealion

Credit © 🎞 🖋 ✅ @steve_woods_photography I need to embody this guy today! - so much going on, it’s hard to keep all the plates spinning! Think this grand master has it dialed though! Plus he looks like a walnut whip! • • • • • • • 1/1000 f8 iso2000 Canon 1DXii - Canon 600mm f4 III • • • • • • #photography #canada #vancouver #britishcolumbia #stellarsealion #sealion #underwater #wildlife #scuba #illgrammers #agameoftones #1dxmarkii #divephotography #marineconservation #keepitwild #stayandwander #lonelyplanet #theoutbound #finditliveit #adventuremobile #exploremore #bestvacations #natgeo #travelstoke #wonderful_places #freedive @pacificprodive #norrisrocks (at Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9es6FkhRoR/?igshid=1aslc997qsv8b

Credit © 🎬 🖋✅ @steve_woods_photography Spring, Summer and Autumn have been rad in Canada, though I am counting down the days until winter because I am itching to get back in the water with these 1000kg water puppies and play. Has to be one of the most interactive underwater experiences. They are just like little puppies blowing bubbles, mouthing and just desperate to play and have fun. Counting the days down. If anyone wants to come with us over December / January just drop me a line and come over! • • • • • •Canon 1DXii - Canon EF 8-15mm fisheye - Subal housing, Zen dome • • • #photography #canada #vancouver #britishcolumbia #stellarsealion #sealion #underwater #wildlife #scuba #illgrammers #agameoftones #1dxmarkii #divephotography #marineconservation #keepitwild #stayandwander #lonelyplanet #theoutbound #finditliveit #adventuremobile #exploremore #bestvacations #natgeo #travelstoke #wonderful_places #freedive @pacificprodive #norrisrocks https://www.instagram.com/p/B4sZhJ1BlY0/?igshid=hwemrgz33g62

🚨Call to Action🚨⁣⁣ @pnwprotectors ⁣We need your help protecting 1000 sea lions from being killed! ⁣ ⁣ There’s a new proposal between Washington, Oregon and Idaho imploring NOAA for the rights to kill 1000 pinnipeds in the Columbia River (Same river system as the Snake River Dams).⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ There’s also a misguided notion drifting around that mindlessly blames Pinnipeds (seals & sea lions) as culprits for the alarming decline in salmon.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ When one dives deeper into scientific data there’s evidential proof that shows that pinnipeds consume approximately 60 different species of fish including salmon, and also including hake fish, which consume more salmon than pinnipeds. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ The Transient Orcas are spectacularly awesome at managing pinniped numbers and consume around 1090 per year! ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ The Salish Sea and west coast is home to 2 different species of Orcas:⁣⁣⁣ 73 salmon-eating Southern Resident Orcas ⁣⁣⁣ 600 mammal-eating Biggs/Transient Orcas. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ These two species of Orcas live in the same polluted, loud, overfished, dammed waters and yet the Transient Orca population is thriving while the Southern Resident Orcas are starving towards extinction. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ The glaringly obvious difference = Food. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🚨Let’s stop this misguided cull and protect the Salish Sea from more harm: ⁣⁣⁣ Click the link under our profile and click the ‘Comment Now’ button and share that you are 100% against the proposed pinniped cull.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 📸🌊: @hannah_gabrielson ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ #harborseal⁣⁣⁣ #stellarsealion⁣⁣⁣ #pinniped ⁣⁣⁣ #weprotectwhatwelove ⁣⁣⁣ #salishsea⁣⁣⁣ #nopinnipedcull ⁣⁣⁣ #biggsarethebalance ⁣⁣⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hfnN9oZQb/?igshid=1w9vewjp2h8dp

Had fun drawing so many water mammals for June’s #awardwinning @ecokidsplanetmag Did you know: The biggest sea lion in the world is bigger than the biggest bear?! #bear #kodiakbear #sealion #stellarsealion #marinemammals #mammals #illustration #cartoon #instaart #instaillustration #instacartoon #ecokids #ecokidsplanet #kidsmagazine #wildlife #comic #comics #ecokidsplanetmagazine #animals #ecokidsunite https://www.instagram.com/p/ByP0L4CBIMS/?igshid=1w7igu1ezdsay

I never get tired of #pnw views and the #wildlife that calls it home. 💙🌊🏔💚 #stellarsealion #exploreoutdoors #pnwonderland

And I shall sing you the song of my people. #sealion #stellarsealion #singthesongofmypeople (at Crescent City Harbor)

#Repost @oceana ・・・ The Western population of Steller sea lions is only a fraction of what it used to be. As modern industrial fisheries intensified in Steller sea lion habitat—without any management enacted to protect sea lions from shootings, entanglements, and competition for food with commercial fisheries—the sea lion population declined rapidly. Learn more and take action at USA.Oceana.org/our-campaigns. 📷: NOAA #oceans #StellarSeaLion #conservation #endangered