James arrives at AMWRRO and is about to be admitted.
Meet James, a young male Australian sea lion rescued from Granite Island (Victor Harbor).
James is fighting a serious infection in his right flipper, he has multiple open wounds scattered over his body, is very underweight and was extremely dehydrated on admission.
Special thanks to Jane a concerned morning walker who found James lying on the Granite Island train tracks and who called AMWRRO for assistance. AMWRRO contacted Dorothy and Keith C/- the Granite Island Penguin Centre to help keep people away whilst local Department for Environment Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) Officer Seiji Iwao was travelling from another conservation park to also lend a hand.
AMWRRO and DEWNR Officers in the Victor Harbor region have successfully worked together over the years to rescue, rehabilitate and release many seals that have found themselves in trouble around the Victor Harbor region.
Flippers crossed James makes a full recovery and we’re able to release him in the near future.
