Join us for festive fun at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary this Christmas!
We are open from 11am - 4pm (last entry at 3pm) every day excluding Christmas Day.
Have you tried a slice of delicious Iced Fruit Cake, Christmas Biscuits, or even or also Christmas Pudding Choc Cookie...All look and taste yummie! These are on sale in the Sanctuary´sCafé.
The new Calendar for 2025!
Get organised for 2025 by ordering your Cornish Seal Sanctuary calendar now, a must-have for all of our supporters! This would make an amazing Christmas present!
With amazing photography of our lovely residents from the Sanctuary´s annual calendar competition!
JP, Klaus along with Sun Beetle were released back into the wild on 3rd of December 2024.
Click here to see a selection of photos.
Pup Update : 4th December 2024 - Three new rescued seal pups were transferred from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue Seal Hospital to the Sanctuary´s hospital in Gweek this month.
Following this years´ "Bugs and Minibeasts" naming theme - Caterpillar, Tiger Moth and Monarch, have joined pups named Purple Hairstreak to continue their road to recovery at the Seal Sanctuary. Click here to read the press release.
Pup Update : 13th December 2024 - Ant, Caterpillar, Purple, Monarch and Tiger Moth have now been moved from the hospital to the outside nursery pools for their next stage of rehabilitation. This means they are on the road to recovery and also have deeper pools to swim in.
Pups in the nursery pools will be learning how to behave in the wild, interacting with other seals and also competing for their fish, which are all vital skills they will need when they are released back out into the wild.
Pup Update : 26th December 2024 - Barry, Koweth and Whirligig have also been moved to the outside nursery pools for their next stage of rehabilitation. These photos below were taken in December 2024.
Koweth (in the video below) was rescued on the 22nd of November 2024.
How you can help?
This pup season the Cornish Seal Sanctuary are asking for donations to upgrade their Animal Rescue vehicle, which will enable them to make more seal pup rescues from around the Cornish coastline.
Donate to their "Pup my Ride" appeal here.
To find out more about the Cornish Seal Sanctuary and its mission, click here.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary is thrilled to announce the arrival of a very special new resident just in time for Christmas "Cliff" the puffin!
Cliff, a male puffin, who arrived from Curraghs Wildlife Park on the Isle of Man, has now joined the Sanctuary´s colony of ten rescued puffins to live out his years alongside his new friends. Click here to read the press release.
Totally amazing turnout of 41 lovely volunteers who came with their Christmas hats to clean the beach on Saturday 14th of December at Helford Passage! Thanks everyone!
A total of 13.7kg collected - 4.9kg recycling and 8.8kg rubbish
Fun finds - 3 little #matchbox toys and a live small spotted cat shark egg case which we put back into the water.
Let´s keep our beaches, rivers, estuaries, etc., beautiful, protect local wildlife, and have a fun day out!
A SEALY BIG THANK YOU to our lovely supporter, Violet, who raised a fantastic £258.75 for the Sanctuary from her birthday fundraiser!
As a huge Seal Lover, Violet has visited the Sanctuary many times, and took part in the "Behind The Seals" tour which she absolutely loved.
She decided to create a birthday fundraiser to help raise money for our "Fund Our Future" project to build new pools for our resident seals and even got a Silver Blue Peter "Kindness" badge for her efforts!
Want to get involved? Click here to start your own fundraiser.
Don´t miss our Christmas Lights & Story Trail this December!
Follow the magical story of Norbert the Beaver and his Golden Carrot, and wander through the woodlands with a festive hot chocolate for that extra bit of winter warmth!
We went to check on several seal colonies in Cornwall in December - enjoy admiring these photos. Click here to see a selection of photos.
These photos were taken with Nikon Coolpix P1000 camera which contains a 3000mm zoom lens!
Each released seal pup is given a flipper tag with an unique ID number. This helps the Cornish Seal Sanctuary and the Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) to track and monitor where pups end up and how they are doing once they are back in the wild.
This month the following seals were spotted in the wild by CSGRT volunteers from around the coast of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly:-
Photo Credit : Media Team - Whist on 29th December 2024
The information regarding tagged seals seen in the wild is copyright of the CSGRT.
By monitoring the behaviour of seals after release back into the wild, the Cornish Seal Sanctuary and the CSGRT can use this information to define the best practice standards and policies that they can share with the international rescue community.
Each seal´s fur pattern is unique and enables the CSGRT volunteers to track them for life.
Seals face many challenges, yet we all depend on them to balance our marine ecosystem, which is essential to make the oxygen we breathe.
Seals are our globally rare wildlife tourist attraction, helping diversify coastal economic prosperity.
This news update has been put together by volunteers/supporters of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary.
