NEWS AND OPINION Location: Waxham beach on the northeast Norfolk coast. A seal pup was spotted by a photographer walking on the beach. Her name is not disclosed in The Times overtly but I believe that she is Rachel Rickett. She telpehoned the Friends of …
There was a time, about a hundred years ago, when the Antarctic fur seal barely escaped extinction because they were hunted for their pelts in their millions. Numbers rebounded as the hunting of fur seals declined but now, thanks to climate change, they are threatened …
NEWS AND OPINION: Against the advice of an expert, a woman picked up a baby seal on a beach near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, and wrapped the animal in her coat, I presume in attempt to rescue the animal, but it died of shock. Inadvertently, …
NEWS AND COMMENT-CAPE TOWN: As I understand this, this is a disturbing example of humankind’s effect on wild animal behaviour through their behaviour. That is not how the story is presented but it is how I read the story. Along the coast off Cape Town, …
