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And it's in that state that Linda Doughty found her life's calling. She helps rehabilitate one of the most common marine mammals along the U.S. east coast, the harbor seal. Here's why Doughty's a CNN Hero. Though she worked with a number of conservation groups in the past, many of them kept having to close down because they lost funding. So Doughty started her own and today we're spending a few minutes with Marine Mammals of Maine.

正是在这种状态下，琳达·道蒂找到了自己的人生使命。她帮助美国东海岸最常见的一种海洋哺乳动物——海豹恢复健康。这就是为什么道蒂是CNN的英雄。尽管她过去曾与许多环保组织合作过，但由于资金不足，许多组织不得不关闭。所以道蒂开始了她自己的生活，今天我们花几分钟来看看缅因州的海洋哺乳动物。

LINDA DOUGHTY: Growing up on the coast of Maine I was exposed to marine mammals and wildlife in general. Since our local area's really surrounded by water, we do a lot of things on the ocean. You see seals doing their thing and I just remember being so amazed. What I love about seals is they really look similar to dogs and they also are really charismatic. It's really neat to see them in their natural environment and their very curious in general. These animals are special to me so I ended up becoming a marine biologist.

我在缅因州海岸长大，接触过海洋哺乳动物和野生动物。由于当地被水包围，我们在海洋上做了很多事情。你看到海豹在做它们的事情，我只记得当时我很惊讶。我喜欢海豹的原因是它们看起来很像狗，而且很有魅力。在自然环境中看到海豹真的很奇妙，它们通常都很好奇。这些动物对我来说很特别，所以我最终成为了一名海洋生物学家。

I would say the biggest threat to these animals is human impacts. We may have an animal that may have been entangled or hit by a boat or injured from a prop wound. With the increase of the human activity on beaches, these animals don't get time to rest and regain their energy. Taking selfies with seals can actually cause a lot of stress and harm for that animal. When harbor seal pups are born, they stay with their mom with about four weeks. Mom usually goes off to forage for food and then come back again.

我认为对这些动物最大的威胁是对人类的影响。我们可能会有一只动物被船缠住或撞到，或者被道具伤到。随着人类在海滩上活动的增加，这些动物没有时间休息和恢复它们的能量。与海豹自拍实际上会给它们带来很多压力和伤害。当海豹幼崽出生后，它们会和母亲一起生活大约四个星期。妈妈通常出去找吃的，然后再回来。

If there's any human involvement, if there's people that are around that pup or pickup and move that pup the mom may not come back. And once that abandoned in the (inaudible), that seal pup's not going to survive. Over the years, non-profits and state agencies for marine animal response and rescue either close down or loss funding. So that's where I decided we're going to help. Good morning Miss 264. Our organization runs a 24 hour reporting hotline for marine mammal strandings. One eighty-four is currently the one that's upside down.

如果有人类的参与，有人在幼崽周围或者把幼崽抱起来，妈妈可能就不会回来了。一旦被遗弃在那只海豹幼崽就活不下去了。多年来，非营利组织和国家海洋动物应急救援机构要么关闭，要么失去资金。所以这就是我决定要帮忙的地方。早上好，264小姐。本组织设有24小时报告热线，处理海洋哺乳动物搁浅事件。1 / 84现在是上下颠倒的。

We cover approximately 2,500 miles along the coast of Maine. Most of the animals that we respond to is about 90 percent seals. We only intervene if needed. When an animal comes into our center, we usually take blood, start an IV and get a whole kind of diagnostics of what the animal's dealing with and come up with a medical plan. So he's on key (ph) therapy for today to try and break up some of this pneumonia that he has. We can provide long term care for four animals at a time. It's been now 20 years that I've been doing this but it seems like I just started yesterday and the feeling has not changed me. I love it now more than ever. I can't imagine there not being a place in the state of Maine for these animals to have a chance to be cared for and I will do that as long as I can.

我们沿着缅因州海岸走了大约2500英里。我们关注的动物90%是海豹。只在需要时我们才介入。当一只动物来到我们这里，我们通常会抽血，静脉注射，对动物的情况进行全面的诊断，然后制定医疗计划。所以这只海豹今天正在接受治疗，试图治愈它的肺炎。我们可以一次为四只动物提供长期护理。现在我已经做了20年了，但感觉就像我昨天才刚刚开始一样，这种感觉并没有改变。我现在比以往任何时候都更爱它。我无法想象缅因州没有一个地方可以让这些动物有机会得到照顾，只要我能做到，我就会做到。