October 2026 - The Cornish Seal Sanctuary is delighted to announce the arrival of two very special new residents, beavers named Steve and Terri!
Steve and Terri arrived at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary on the 24th of September 2026, following a period of care at Five Sisters Zoo in West Caulder, Scotland. Their arrival marks another exciting step in their ongoing partnership with Beaver Trust, supporting the conservation and reintroduction of beavers across mainland Britain. Read more.
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February 2026 - The Cornish Seal Sanctuary are currently carrying out maintenance to the Beavers´ enclosure due to a large amount of damage caused by the recent storms and heavy rain fall. Due to the damage sustained, this may take a little longer to repair than usual. We hope to be able to welcome more Beavers soon, and thank you for your patience.
Turnip and Parsnip have moved onto their next chapter, and have been trans-located to a release site here in the South West of England in February 2026. Click here to watch a short video of their release.
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December 2025 - A Christmas Surprise for Turnip. The Cornish Seal Sanctuary is delighted to welcome a new female beaver named Parsnip, who is ready to establish her own territory and begin an exciting new chapter alongside Turnip, a male beaver who has been eagerly awaiting her arrival! Read more.
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November 2024 - We are super pleased to say that our new baby beaver is settling in well in the beaver nursery at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary after arriving on 12th of November 2024. His enclosure has everything he needs, from a cosy lodge to sleep in, to an area where he can explore, build dams and learn typical beaver behaviour before moving into the larger habitat.
Little "Turnip" has joined us all the way from Scotland and is part of the Beaver Rehabilitation project, in conjunction with the Beaver Trust.
Click here to watch a short video.
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July 2024 - We´re Grandparents! - The Seal Sanctuary are part of a collaborative rehabilitation project with the @beavertrust protecting this incredible species and making sure they have a future here in the UK.
The Sanctuary´s Secret Creek provides a nursery for beaver kits and a larger woodland area for growing beavers to find their feet (or paws) in the wild, before they move onto their forever home.
Click here to watch a short video.
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26th February 2024 - Interesting fact...why do Beavers have Orange Teeth. Click here to find out more.
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13th February 2024 - A HUGE thank you to everyone who took part in the "Name the Beaver Competition".
We can now reveal the new Beaver kits´ names are...ASPEN, BUTTERCUP and SORRELL!
Congratulations to the winners, Faye Tippler, Marie Crawley and Corrina Bentley, who chose Beavers´ Fantastic new names.
The kits will be moving into the main enclosure in the next few weeks, so be sure to come and say hi soon!
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January 2024 - The Cornish Seal Sanctuary just welcomed the new arrivals earlier this month in the Beaver Nursery, there are three Beaver Kits that arrived from Scotland.
The Kits only arrived recently, so the team are focusing on making sure they are so comfortable as possible. If they are active during your visit, please do try and keep the noise levels to a minimum.
Click here to see larger version of these photos taken on 26th January 2024.
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October 2023 - Exciting news! Barbara and Norbert, the Beavers, have finished their rehabilitation with the Cornish Seal Sanctuary! They will remain in the Beaver Nursery until the Beaver Trust can collect them and translocate them to their forever home. Click here to read more.
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February 2023 - The Beaver are still being very busy maintaining their large dam in the last couple of months as well as plenty of felling action! They are almost through felling one of the trees, located a few metres up from their lodge Click here to read more.
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6th October 2022 - Busy Beavers built a dam within just 48 hours after experiencing heavy rainfall overnight which wasted away! Click here to read more.
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3rd October 2022 - Scruff and Maple have moved to a new home with the Wildwood Trust in Canterbury, Kent, as part of an ongoing conservation project to support beaver populations and rewilding initiatives across Britain. Click here to read the Press Release.
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April 2022 - On the 28th of April 2022 the Sanctuary were thrilled to announce that Hamish, one of the orphaned beavers, was moved to his new home! Click here to read the Press Release.
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January 2022 - Lets welcome the three new orphaned beaver kits from Scotland to the Cornish Seal Sanctuary on 6th January 2022.
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On 15th March 2021 during the Country´s National Lockdown, the Cornish Seal Sanctuary were incredibly excited to announce two rescued beaver sisters from Scotland had now moved into the "Beaver Nursery".
It was a big "Thank you" to the Maintenance Team who had done an amazing job in transforming the Otter enclosure into a "Beaver Nursery".
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