Cornwall Wildlife Trust have been alerted by our partners at the Cetacean Strandings Investigation programme (CSIP) of Avian Flu being discovered in the carcasses of five seals from Cornwall.
The smaller of our two UK seal species, common seals are also known as harbour seals. Despite being called "Common", they are actually less common than grey seals!
Have you ever seen the curious face of a grey seal bobbing in the waves when visiting the beach? Grey seals can be seen lying on beaches waiting for their food to go down. Sometimes they are…
Seal research never stops! The final Saturday of 2019 saw marine conservation volunteers leave a chilly harbour at dawn destined for Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s iconic Looe Island Nature Reserve.…
Spend Easter Sunday celebrating the county’s wonderful marine life with Cornwall Wildlife Trust at a special Easter Sealebration event in Mousehole, and top of the bill will be the grey seals,…
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
30 years ago, if Jeremy had fallen in the river then he’d have been more worried about being poisoned than drowned! A 1980s trawl survey found just one fish in the Billingham reach of the Tees,…
From nesting oystercatchers to returning seals - it's been a busy spring for Looe Island's wardens, Claire Lewis and Jon Ross.
Our seas are mysterious and exciting places. Have you seen a bottlenose dolphin jumping clear of the water? Have you come face to face with a grey seal? Have you snorkelled with a colour changing…
I'm Claire, and Looe Island is my home all year round. I'm a nature warden on this extra-special nature reserve, owned by Cornwall Wildlife Trust, along with my partner Jon, some…
