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The first pup (Uno) to be rescued during the 2015/16 season turned out to be number two (dos) in the 2016 rehabilitated seal resightings list! Seen today on the West Cornwall haul out from which she had been rescued, Uno looked fit and well.
Ironically Kerplunk, the second seal to be rescued during the 2015/16 season…
Cornwall College’s Charity Spring Fair was held at their Newquay Campus today! Students Catherine, Emily, Jade, Joe and Kaitlin had organised fundraising action in aid of CSGRT! Top highlight was an assault course with a difference! Designed to show everyone what it might be like to be a seal negotiating its way around ghost gear…
It’s a well known fact that Cornwall’s marine life is truly spectacular and an important asset to Cornwall’s economy! Less well known are the teams of incredible volunteers who are prepared to go out in all weathers, all year round to check up on these amazing creatures.
Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) routinely…
Research findings about grey seals in south west England found a wider audience at the Society of Marine Mammology Conference (SMM2015) at the Hilton, Union Square, San Francisco thanks to funding from World Animal Protection and Cornwall College Newquay. The purpose of Sue and Bex’s trip was to share our research on grey seal entanglement…
(written by Rebecca Hollely who has kindly given her permission for us to publish her blog post on our website.) Last year, University of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation MSc. students set up a really cool group called The Natural Selection, where they interviewed university bioscience researchers about their recent work and made it…
Since successfully introducing George Eustice (the DEFRA Minister for farming, food and the marine environment) to his local seals at the end of the last month, we have had a particularly busy time representing seals in our human world!
Sue, George and Kate meet the seals (including flipper tagged Beast – an ex…
Six years ago on 21/10/09 I got a call from British Divers Marine Life Rescue’s (BDMLR) Cornwall co-ordinator and charity director Dave Jarvis telling me there was a pup in trouble in the sea at Gwithian. It seems such a long time ago and yet I remember it like yesterday as it was rather an…
Uno was the first grey seal pup to be rescued of the 2015/16 season in Cornwall mainland. On 3rd September 2015, Sue and Kate from Cornwall Seal Group (CSG) were concerned about a one day old female seal pup with a white coat and a pink umbilicus during a routine monitoring session. They were alerted by the pup’s…