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Pelicans are dying from snapped wings, officials fear by a human
By Heather McRea | This week in Coast Lines: More than 30 pelicans have been taken to the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach over the last eight months with severe injuries from apparent attacks.
Plus, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assures local officials restoring sand from Huntington Beach to Newport Beach is a priority, and during Pride Month and days before the fifth anniversary of the deadly Pulse Night Club shooting in Orlando, Long Beach unveils its new Pride Lifeguard Tower.
Here’s what’s happening along the Southern California coast. |  | Pelicans are being injured in high numbers
California brown pelicans that appear to have been mutilated in attacks at human hands have been rushed to the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach over the last eight months after being found along the Orange County coast by lifeguards and beachgoers.
It is a few that survived their injuries despite expensive emergency surgeries and rehabilitation efforts.
The clean nature of the birds’ snapped wings has the center's veterinarian suspecting these are human attacks and the Department of Fish and Wildlife needs people’s help.
Read the story. | Sanding the shore is on the to-fund list
Adding much-need sand to the shoreline from Huntington Beach to Newport Beach is a priority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but the project is competing with similar needs across the country.
“Our project competes against all the projects, regionally and nationally. There are many projects and a fixed budget," said Susie Ming, the Los Angeles District project manager. “I don’t have an exact reason why it has not gotten funding. But it is and continues to be a priority for our district.”
The district even boosted its funding request for this next round around because it knows the shore needs more sand since it has been so long since the last time the restoration work was done.
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|  | Long Beach replaced Pride tower quickly
Less than three months since the original Pride Lifeguard Tower in Long Beach burned down - arson is suspected - its brightly painted replacement was unveiled.
The tower guards the sands between 12th and 13th streets.
“It’s an important moment for us also to remember that the fight for equality and equity and justice is not just our own with our community,” Mayor Robert Garcia, the city’s first openly gay mayor, told the crowd, “but it is work that we have to share and a struggle that we share with so many other communities, which is why I love seeing all the support for the diversity and beauty of what our community really stands for.”
Read the story. | What else?
City of Laguna Beach to pay a $785,780 fine for a 2019 sewage spill, but also hundreds of thousands to make improvements to avoid future damaging spills to its shoreline.
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The Ironman, a raucous tradition in the South Bay, returns for Fourth of July.
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San Clemente is declaring its pride in hosting Team USA with three huge Olympic surfing-themed murals you can check out now.
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|  | In the ocean
Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine fish species, experts say. But as the coral dies off because of warming ocean temperatures, the fish are left without their natural cover. A revamped exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific talks about the conservation efforts laboring to revive our local reefs.
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