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Seal Pup Adoptions

Support our seal rescue efforts and adopt a seal pup! Receive a personalised adoption certificate, an info pack, and exclusive access to your pup’s recovery journey updates!

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Q season adoptions (1350 x 1350 px)

Tours and Experiences

Our Seal Feed and
Enrichment Experiences are BACK!

This 1 hour immersive programme gives you the unique opportunity to see our adorable seal pups up close, and help us get them one step closer to being released back into the wild!

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Become a member

Seal Heroes Memberships

Becoming a Seal Hero is the best way you can support our seal rescue and conservation efforts!

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Our Award-Winning Tours and Experiences are not to be missed! Meet our pup patients in care, learn all about Ireland’s beloved wild seals, their amazing capabilities, the threats they face, and how you can protect them! 

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About us

What we do at Seal Rescue Ireland

Seal Rescue Ireland is a charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured, or orphaned seals. We run a 24-Hour Rescue Line, supported by just over 600 Rescue Network Volunteers who help to assess, and transport seals to our care. SRI strives to promote ocean conservation and sustainability through education, community engagement and research programmes, in order to protect our marine environment and all life within. At our visitor centre, we welcome and educate guests from all over the world on threats facing marine life and promote ocean conservation and sustainability. Our motto is: Healthy Seas, Healthy Seals! 

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What we offer

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Experiences

Choose our Rescuer for a Day or Seal Feed and Enrichment Experience. Come behind the scenes at our Seal Hospital, meet, feed and take care of our seal pups!

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Education

Access valuable knowledge & resources on Ireland’s wild seal population. Their importance, evolution, capabilities, habitat, and the threats they face in the wild!

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Ways to help

There are so many ways you can help to support our seals! From Pup Adoptions, Memberships & Donations, to Volunteering, Sponsorship & Fundraising!

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Seal Facts

2024 Impact Numbers

169

Seals Rescued

97

Seals Released

25,000+

People Reached Through our Education Programme

218

New Rescue Volunteers

64

Internship Programme Participants

24

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Spotting a Seal

What to do if you see a seal

Respect

Do not disturb seals. Observe them from a safe distance, 100m is advised. This is a safe distance to ensure seals do not become stressed.

Caution

Never touch or try to feed seals, they are wild animals and can bite if stressed, mothers can abandon pups if continually approached by people.

Leave Seals Be

Do not put the seal in the water or try to herd a seal into the water. Seals are on land for a reason! Seals need to rest on land to digest, care for young and socialise. New born pups and injured and sick pups are on land to rest, recover & grow.

Ensure Safety

Please keep your dogs on a lead and ensure children maintain a safe distance from seals for their safety and the welfare of the seals

Contact Us

Contact us for advice! If the pup is on its own with no mum in sight; obviously injured, or if unsure, please ring Seal Rescue Ireland on 087 1955 393

Education

Explore seal education together

Our passionate team love to share their knowledge of seal ecology, behaviour, and what threats face seals and other marine life, promoting a healthy marine habitat! Seal Rescue Ireland shares the lessons we’ve learned in a fun, interactive environment. We offer an array of engaging local, and online programmes, tailored to suit all ages and learning abilities. Not only do we have a virtual education video series, with accompanying workbooks, and projects, but we also offer guided educational group tours, virtual online tours, visiting speakers, and the opportunity to book a visit to your premises from our Educational Roadshow or an Educational Stall! 

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Testimonials

What people are saying about us

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  • I just love the adoption program so much. Makes it easily accessable to adopt from abroad and the effort you lovely people put into the adoption sites is amazing, it’s just great to watch the adoptees grow up and progress, that’s a huge payoff! I’m on my seventh seal now and won’t stop haha

    Annie

    – April | 2023

  • Thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity of being able to help such a worthy cause. Thank you to all the volunteers who do such an amazing job. Very grateful to be a little help in the rehab process.

    Bríd Hennigan

    – March | 2024

  • I’ve been watching my sweet girl Hydra on her (second) journey to recovery and it’s something so special that I can’t explain. Seeing her sweet wee self has helped me a lot these past few weeks. You’re all doing such wonderful work and I can’t wait to adopt other seals in the future, and I hope some day I can make the trip to watch a release. Let Hydra know I love her!

    Alyshia (verified owner)

    – June | 2021

  • June is volunteering month again and I asked the team if they wanted to do something different this year or go back and help the Seal Rescue Centre. They all resoundingly wanted to go back to the seals. It obviously made a big impression as everyone who was there drastically reduced their plastic bottle usage!

    Red, Google Dublin

    – March | 2024

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