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Around 6pm on Easter Monday, Friends of Horsey Seals rescue team received a call from a member of the public asking for help for a young seal that had got stuck in rocks at Waxham.

Good news. Kings Lynn Borough Council has banned flying rings from its beaches following a long running campaign supported by Friends of Horsey Seals.

We’re delighted to share our most recent Friends Newsletter available to our all Friends Supporters.

This is an urgent appeal from Friends of Horsey Seals because you may not be aware that it is now breeding season for Common seals.

FoHS Rescue team members came across a lone common seal pup at Waxham which was only days old with no Mother in sight

After a couple of days evading our FoHS Rescue Team, a grey seal pup covered in green monofilament netting was finally caught and cut free

Seals are beautiful wild creatures who come to our lovely Norfolk beaches at this time of year. But once again visitors are getting far too close to them.

Two jet skiers, who rode at speed along the Horsey shoreline scaring more than 200 seals into the sea, have been reported to the police

Hannah, one of our eagle-eyed wardens, spotted a seal on Horsey Beach with a yellow tag on its tail amongst a group of moulting seals.

Friends of Horsey Seals responded to a call reporting that a seal was entangled with a shopping bag on Winterton beach.  When the rescue team arrived, they managed to catch the young seal and found the handle of the plastic bag was stuck around its neck…

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…