{"id":388178,"date":"2025-09-01T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388178\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:59:10","slug":"underweight-seal-pup-rescued-from-felixstowe-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388178\/","title":{"rendered":"Underweight seal pup rescued from Felixstowe beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Jon Wills was walking along the seafront in Felixstowe when he saw the pup on the beach near the Spa Pavilion theatre on Sunday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Volunteers for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) attended the scene after receiving reports of the sighting from members of the public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The BDMLR was formed in 1988 when a group of divers joined in response to a mass mortality of common seals in the Wash area of East Anglia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25425998.suffolk-alert-asian-hornet-nests-found-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suffolk warned to be on alert after 64 Asian hornet nests found in UK<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The seal was rescued by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The seal was rescued by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (Image: Jon Wills) Seal rescue has remained a major component of the group&#8217;s work with medics rescuing animals year-round across the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The seal pup in Felixstowe was assessed and determined to be very underweight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was also suspected the baby marine animal had mouth rot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25424048.great-british-beach-clean-hit-suffolk-beaches-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beach clean-ups set to take place across Suffolk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"It is believed the seal pup was underweight\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>It is believed the seal pup was underweight (Image: Jon Wills) The volunteers took the seal away for further assessment and treatment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A new colony of seals was established at Orford Ness after nearly 500 were seen at the former military testing site by February 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Around the UK, the pupping season happens between late August and early January but can vary depending on the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Wills was walking along the seafront in Felixstowe when he saw the pup on the beach near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-388178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115126335222698145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}