The GSPCA said there would be added challenges with seal pups being born this year as its seal facilities were soon to be demolished An animal charity said there was "added challenges" this autumn ...
The City of Cape Town has received a generous donation of 10 seal stretchers to assist with the handling and removal of large dead seal carcasses along the city’s coastline, Cape {town} Etc reports.
Swimmers have been warned to give seals their distance amid fears of a “seal finger” infection if bitten by the aquatic mammals that are gathering in their hundreds around the UK coastline.
Avian flu, also known as H5N1, spread through marine mammal colonies in Argentinian Patagonia in August 2023, nearly doubling the death rate among southern elephant seals in some areas.