Wildlife Jewels

06/16/2026

Thank you to Del Mar Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune for featuring the launch of Wildlife Jewels Rescue Crew and our mission to help wildlife in need along our coast.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to share how Wildlife Jewels brings together trained volunteer response, community education, and the arts to protect coastal wildlife.

Read the feature: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/06/13/solana-beach-nonprofit-launches-wildlife-jewels-rescue-crew/

📰 Luke Harold The San Diego Union-Tribune

Solana Beach Chamber of Commerce

06/16/2026

06/12/2026

Thank you, Megan Parry 10News and 10News – ABC San Diego KGTV, for shining a light on the challenges nesting gulls, chicks, and other vulnerable seabirds are facing along our coast, and for featuring Wildlife Jewels’ Rescue Crew work.

Community awareness helps protect these vulnerable birds and can make a life-saving difference for our precious coastal wildlife.💜

06/12/2026

🌊🎨 Create art overlooking Newport Harbor!

Wildlife Jewels invites you to The Art of Newport Beach Wildlife: Marine & Coastal Wildlife, a free oceanfront community art experience at historic Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory.

Help create a collaborative artwork inspired by Newport Beach’s marine life and coastal wildlife while enjoying stunning harbor views, a special marine laboratory tour, and the connection between art, science, and nature.

📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026
⏰ 3:30–5:30 PM
📍 Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory, Corona del Mar
🎟 Free | All ages welcome
🎨 No art experience required

Space is limited — RSVP here: https://www.wildlifejewels.org/art-of-newport-beach-wildlife-marine-coastal-wildlife

This is the first event in Wildlife Jewels’ The Art of Newport Beach Wildlife community art series, supported by the City of Newport Beach Cultural Arts Grant Program. Artwork created during the series will be featured in a public community showcase this fall.

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06/08/2026

On World Ocean Day, we celebrate a special milestone for Wildlife Jewels! 🌊🎀

Tomorrow, we officially launch the Wildlife Jewels Rescue Crew program, strengthening our commitment to protecting coastal wildlife whose lives depend on a healthy ocean.

📅 Tuesday, June 9
⏰ 12:00–1:00 PM
📍 La Colonia Community Center, Solana Beach

RSVP Here: https://www.wildlifejewels.org/wildlife-jewels-rescue-crew-ribbon-cutting

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06/06/2026

A newborn sea lion pup with an umbilical cord was observed alone along the La Jolla shoreline.

Newborn pups are extremely vulnerable and need space, quiet, and protection from disturbance.

We are wishing for the best possible outcome for this little pup — whether that means being reunited with mom or being rescued by authorized responders.

Please do not approach, touch, feed, or attempt to move any marine mammal.

💙 Every wild life matters.

🔗 https://www.wildlifejewels.org/wildlife-jewels-rescue-updates/newborn-sea-lion-pup-la-jolla

Photo/Video: Wildlife Jewels / Azi S Wildlife
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06/05/2026

🌊 World Ocean Day Wildlife Walk — This Saturday!

Join Wildlife Jewels for our World Ocean Day Wildlife Walk along the beautiful La Jolla shoreline.

Together, we’ll walk, learn about local coastal wildlife, and share what Wildlife Jewels is seeing through our La Jolla EYES and Rescue Crew efforts — including seabirds, marine mammals, entanglements, injuries, marine debris, and ways community reporting can help ocean animals in need.

📅 Saturday, June 6, 2026
⏰ 5:00 PM
📍 La Jolla Cove

RSVP for details: https://www.wildlifejewels.org/world-ocean-day-wildlife-walk-la-jolla

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06/03/2026

Over the past three months, Wildlife Jewels has spent countless hours monitoring and searching local beaches as a devastating rise in deceased and distressed seabirds has unfolded along our coast.

As starvation, injuries, fishing-line entanglements, and other emergencies have increased, our team has been searching beaches, documenting cases, reporting distressed wildlife, and helping support response efforts.

More recently, we have seen a devastating rise in entangled pelicans and cormorants along the La Jolla coastline. In just the past week alone, we documented nearly two dozen entangled birds between Children’s Pool and La Jolla Cove.

These recent cases, along with years of witnessing coastal wildlife emergencies, are why the Wildlife Jewels Rescue Crew was created — to help search for, report, and support response efforts for injured, entangled, and distressed coastal wildlife.

As we prepare for the Wildlife Jewels Rescue Crew ribbon cutting ceremony next week, we’ll be sharing some of the wildlife emergencies and response efforts that inspired this program.

If you see distressed wildlife, please report it immediately and continue watching the animal from a safe distance until responders arrive:

🔗 WildlifeJewels.org/report-wildlife

📷 📹 © Wildlife Jewels / Azi S Wildlife

06/01/2026

Wildlife Jewels is honored to announce that we have been admitted as a Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

As an IUCN Member, Wildlife Jewels joins a global Union dedicated to conserving nature, protecting biodiversity, and advancing solutions for people and the planet.

We look forward to engaging with fellow Members, expert Commissions, and conservation leaders around the world as we continue advancing our mission to protect wildlife through monitoring, rescue support, education, community engagement, science, technology, and the arts.

We are excited to contribute to this esteemed global conservation community and to work together toward a future where wildlife and nature thrive.

Learn more: https://www.wildlifejewels.org/wildlife-jewels-updates/wildlife-jewels-admitted-as-new-iucn-member

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