thejournal.ie: Reports of dead seals on coasts doubled in 2020, charity says

THE NUMBER OF dead seals washing up on Irish shores rose significantly last year, according to Seal Rescue Ireland.

The rescue charity says that it received the highest number of dead seal reports of the last five years in 2020.

Speaking to Patricia Messinger on C103′s Cork Today show, Seal Rescue Ireland executive director Melanie Croce said that the group is seeing a “huge rise” in reports of dead seals.