Pembrokeshire
- British Divers Marine Life Rescue Their mission is to: “provide assistance to any aquatic (marine and freshwater) animal in need of help. It does this through the training of specialist marine mammal medics and deploying them around the country. Teams use an array of specialist rescue and PPE equipment to facilitate the rescue and release of animals from mammals (seals and cetaceans, and the odd otter) plus turtles and even fish. BDMLR attempts to attend all call outs it receives whether that is simply checking a seal reported by a member of the public to a full blown environmental disaster such as an oil spill. It has medics and various pieces of specialised equipment located around the UK coast and works with rehabilitation centres and experts in many fields of animal rescue.Over the years BDMLR has built a reputation for its high standard of work and exceptional knowledge and has been contacted by many overseas organisations and governments to assist with training personnel or providing rescuers and gear.” Taken from their website.
Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) aka Seal Research Trust
“Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust is a multi-award winning, evidence-based marine conservation charity. What we do really works. We support a large network of active citizen scientists across SW communities, who routinely survey seals on their local patch. This gives seals a voice and enables us to protect them and their ocean home.
Seals face many ocean challenges, yet we all depend on them to balance our marine ecosystem. This is essential to make the oxygen we breathe. Seals are our globally rare wildlife tourist attraction, helping diversify coastal economic prosperity.
Please send us your seal sightings (even just one seal in the sea or on land) with a date and location. Photos are a bonus. They help us confirm its species, whether it’s male or female and perhaps even reveal its name and life history! Please email sightings@cornwallsealgroup.co.uk with your records.
Each seal has a unique fur pattern that enables it to be photo identified throughout its life. Learn the pattern and you can recognise the seal! CSGRT hold identification catalogues for numerous sites from Somerset round to Hampshire.”
From their website: https://cornwallsealgroup.co.uk/
Seal Sanctuaries
Tynemouth Aquarium has for over 10 years, been collaborating to provide immediate rescue for seal pups. We work alongside the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and the RSPCA to rehabilitate seals, with our joint efforts, we’ve created a rescue centre offering emergency care for seal pups, as well as other marine life that washes up on our Tyne and Wear coast.
The Seal Hospital is a purpose-built rescue facility where we can efficiently provide the necessary care and treatments for sick, injured, and abandoned seal pups and other marine life. Since the opening of the centre, we’ve rescued more than 200 seals, which, once stabilised, are then released back into the wild. https://www.tynemouthaquarium.co.uk/
The SEA LIFE Trust currently owns and operates two marine animal sanctuaries. Our animal care team at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in the UK cares for sick and injured seal pups. The newly created Beluga Whale Sanctuary off the south coast of Iceland provides formerly captive beluga whales with a safe and more natural home. https://www.sealifetrust.org/en/our-sanctuaries/
Seal Rescue Ireland (SRI) is a registered charity (RCN: 20108519) that works around the clock to rescue, rehabilitate and release native seals found sick, injured or orphaned from across the coast of Ireland. As the only seal rescue centre within the Republic of Ireland, we respond to reports nationwide and aim to rehabilitate the pups back to full health so that they can be returned to the wild.https://www.sealrescueireland.org/
Wildlife Centres
Aquariums
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