News

After the grey seal breeding season ends in January, another important event occurs – the annual moult. Over the next three months, many hundreds of adult seals will come ashore to get rid of their old worn-out coats and grow new ones and this is important because their coats make them waterproof and keep them warm…

Friends of Horsey Seal’s Rescue Team is having to expand. The Charity is responding to an increasing number of sick or injured seals across a wider area.  Two newly recruited wardens are currently being trained to become rescuers by experienced members of the team…

Pups getting trapped between rocks seems to be an increasingly common problem this year and several people reported a pup stuck in the rocks at Sea Palling…

Two days after the last Waxham rescue, the FoHS Rescue team were alerted via the emergency phone to another pup that unbelievably had also got itself stuck and partially buried down another hole between Groyne 21 and 22…

Our FoHS Rescue team has been busy over the festive season. 

In the lead up to Christmas, a little seal pup got itself stuck down a hole in between large rocks at Waxham beach…  

We’re delighted to publish our exclusive winter Friends Newsletter with in-depth information about this season so far, plus some added extras about all our work.

In response to recent articles on the internet and reports in the local and national press, FoHS wants to address a common misunderstanding about seals…

The Friends of Horsey Seals rescue team was called out following reports that a little pup had been hanging around Cart Gap over the weekend alone with no mum in sight…

A new information poster aimed at the general public has been created on why giving seals space is so vital to their health and survival.

Under the watchful eye of his Nanny Louise, who is one of our trained wardens, five year old Harry has now completed four shifts and his eleven year old brother Riley has been on one.

We are delighted to share our Autumn Newsletter containing in-depth details about our work, campaigns, news and of course, the seals themselves together with a wider take on nature and the natural habitat and events and organisations involved.

Rescuers showed sheer determination – A seal with a large amount of netting around its neck gave various rescuers from different organisations the slip.

Take a look at all the work we’ve been doing with the Flying Rings Campaign.

Once again, we must urgently appeal to dog owners to keep their pets on leads when near any seals.

We are thrilled that SEA LIFE Great Yarmouth has launched a striking new display created with Friends of Horsey Seals that highlights the terrible injuries that seals suffer from discarded plastic flying rings stuck around their necks. 

We have been sent a very distressing video from a supporter, filmed on Horsey Beach. It shows a group of visitors including a small child who got far too close to a group of seals, even touching one and chasing it into the sea.

Sadly, it seems there are a growing number of seals in trouble for one reason or another. The one we rescued today was young and sick.

We rescued another seal today with green netting tangled around its neck which had caused a deep wound. It followed an early call to our FoHS Rescue Team.