Sea lion found tangled up and trapped by plastic ring digging deep into its neck

The sea lion was tangled up near Nevelsk on Russia’s Sakhalin Island (Picture: Yuri Smityuk/Cover Images)A sea lion with a dangerous plastic ring wrapped around its neck has been rescued in a dramatic operation. The female Steller’s sea lion, a protected species, was spotted tangled up in the plastic loop near the port town of Nevelsk on Russia’s Sakhalin Island.Photos show the animal resting on a breakwater rock alongside other sea lions as a rescue boat carrying a team