Rescue & Conservation

The challenges seals face have multiplied with humanity’s growing impact on the natural world, and we have an obligation to mitigate the damage wherever we can. Understanding seals and caring for them and their coastal habitats is how we create …

A Sea for Seals

When a stranded seal is found and rescued, it has a long journey in rehabilitation before it, but every step leads to one destination: back to the wild. It is a a beautiful goal, a sea with endless space to swim, beaches to rest on, and all the fish for the taking. But the wild isn’t a guarantee – it’s a challenge, a home shaped by human choices rather than a habitat for seals.

One day soon, when our rescued seal slips back into the waves, chances are high it won’t look back. It doesn’t know much about the hands that saved it, the long nights of care, the quiet victories and the heartbreak. It only knows the sea calling it home. But its journey isn’t just its own – it’s part of a wider network of interconnected species and ocean health, and it belongs to us, too. Every seal saved reminds us that conservation is never finished. It begins anew each time a seal returns to a habitat we must work to protect and help turn into a home again.

Painting of a male harbor seals called Herbert. He's looking very content while he's resting but alert, one front flipper tucked under.

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