SRI Habitat Restoration Reaches Milestone of 20,000 Trees!
Why Dead Seals Wash Up On Our Shores & How to Help!
During the winter months, reports of seal death's increase dramatically. Just recently a photo of a mysterious sea creature was discovered on the beach near Barna Pier in Galway, Ireland,…
Habitat Restoration and Birds of Prey
Feature Image: BirdWatch Ireland - https://birdwatchireland.ie/birds/buzzard/ Birds of Prey are apex predators that play a crucial role in maintaining environmental health within their habitat by removing weak, old, and sick…
Habitat Restoration and Bats
Bats play a valuable role in functioning ecosystems. Across the globe, some bat species are valuable as insect predators, while in more tropical latitudes, some species are pollinators that help…
Why a Seal Rescue Charity is planting 25,000 trees
Why is a seal rescue charity planting 25,000 trees? The biodiversity crisis is too urgent not to! Author: Faye Saulsbury, 20th August 2022 Project Manager, Jeshua Taucher planting Irish Oak…
13,319 Native Trees Planted!
Why are we seeing more dead seals?
This month, we be were busy raising the alarm about the huge rise in dead seals washing up and being reported across Ireland’s coastlines.
n 2020 SRI recorded a total of 202 dead seal reports, nearly DOUBLE that of 2019! And the trend continues: so far 2021 is starting off strong, with double the numbers reported from this time in 2020
Restoring Trees and Rivers at Ballinclare Dairy
We have lots of amazing information about this riparian restoration project coming soon. Below you'll find an assortment of photos of our volunteers and the landowner, George, working throughout the…
Become a Virtual Seal Hero
Our highly anticipated educational video series is now available for streaming on our website!
To continue bringing our engaging education programme into classes across Ireland, while preventing the spread of Covid-19, we've created our "Earth Heroes" programme!
Restoring Courtown Woods
Begining in 2019, we invited 300 members of the community to join us to plant 600 native trees in an area of Courtown Woods that was devastated by Heavy Machinery.…
Freia the seal pup is helping WRI!
2020 was a year that was anything but ordinary as we’ve all had to adapt to the ‘new normal!' Throughout life in lockdown, everyone has been doing what they can…
How Seals Benefit Fisheries
As native seal populations have begun to recover over the past several decades due to conservation efforts and protection policies in Ireland, interactions between seals and fisheries have escalated. In…
Surveying Seals at Brides Head Beach
Go Plastic Free For July
Seal Rescue Ireland is proud to be partaking in Plastic Free July and we would love for you to join in! For the month of July, people around the world…
Meet the Seals… Online!
Cloudberry’s Homecoming
We are thrilled to announce that our rescued Ringed Seal, Cloudberry, at last made her triumphant return to the wild! This special seal stole our hearts and tickled our funny…
SRI During The Pandemic
A large part of the joy of working at Seal Rescue Ireland is getting to capture the public’s attention by sharing the story of what we do and why we…
World Wildlife Day
Seal Rescue Ireland took a safari into the depths of the animal kingdom on the first weekend in March, to celebrate World Wildlife Day! We turned our centre into a…
Aughboy Habitat Restoration Project
Meeting the Irish President
A Trip to Seal Rescue Ireland
On a recent trip, I stumbled across Seal Rescue Ireland, a national charity that rescues and rehabilitates sick, injured and orphaned seal pups and inspires ocean conservation. It’s located in…
She’s an Arctic Mystery
On 2nd January 2020 a curious guest showed up on the west coast of Ireland in CO. Kerry in the shape of a fluffy little cloud. After further sitings and…
The Rescue of Maui
THE CALL Our 24-hour hotline phone received a rather distressing call on Thursday afternoon, 10 May 2018. The caller spoke in a surprising urgency; Grey seal pupping season had been…
Restoring Irish Watersheds
FROM CLOUDY MOUNTAINS AND FARMLANDS TO URBAN DRAINS, ALL WATER LEADS TO THE SEA! Following the overwhelming success of our pilot restoration project in Courtown Woods last winter (2018), Seal…
Climate Change Action Plan
Meet Falafel our Climate Emergency Ambassador! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ueSC0G7Rk Following a stormy few days in November 2019, our rescue team were called out to Arklow, to assess the state of a grey…
What Are Ecobricks?
Thanks for doing your part to reduce plastic waste in our oceans and landfills! Due to an incredible amount of interest from across Ireland, SRI is currently not accepting Ecobricks…
Why Is Human Disturbance A Problem?
Please DO NOT approach, touch, harm or harass a wild seal as this is dangerous, harmful to the seal, and illegal. Seals are protected species under both EU and Irish…
Why is Plastic Pollution A Threat?
The world has changed significantly in the past 35 years. An incomprehensible amount of plastic has been produced, used and discarded, much of it ending up in the environment. There…
