Successful rescue of a seal, and we hope buzzard recovers well

By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Nov 2018, 06:00 BST
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WRAS Rescuers Chris and Ellie were called down to Pevensey Bay last week after reports of an injured seal on the beach.

Unfortunately they were unable to catch the seal, which disappeared back into the seal before they could get anywhere near the marine mammal.

Just after 8.30am the next day another call was received but this time from members of the public by the Eastbourne Wish Tower.

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Once again rescuers from WRAS attended. A quick assessment showed it to be the same seal.

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This time rescuers were able to block the seal’s escape route back to the water and approached and successfully caught the injured seal.

The mammal was transported back to WRAS’s hospital before being taken to RSPCA Mallydams at Hastings where they have specialist seal facilities.

The seal had numerous puncture wounds but the cause is unclear but possibly from fighting with another seal.

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We use newspapers as bedding for most of our animals that come into WRAS’s casualty centre at Whitesmith.

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We rely solely on donations of newspaper so please if you go through quite a few during the week bring them to us and recycle them at WRAS!

As we go into our winter period we will use dozens of newspapers every day as hedgehog bedding and much more.