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Trustees’ Award: Darryl Thorpe
Darryl Thorpe has been awarded a prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Marine Mammal Rescue Award by BDMLR’s Trustees. He earned the accolade because of his long service as a vet consultant for...
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BDMLR’s Cornwall Seal hospital is now featuring on YouTube thanks to BDMLR Director and Trustee Gavin Parsons, who is volunteering at the hospital this year. Gavin is making a series of vlogs for our...
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‘Commuter’ disentanglement
📷 Andy Rogers On Sunday 14 January BDMLR Medics in Cornwall, in collaboration with surveyors from the Seal Research Trust, managed to successfully remove a plastic ring from around the neck of an...
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A Seal Pup named Brie
📷 Jeremy Gilson: free at last! A report by BDMLR Medic Jeremy Gilson. In early August 2023 I took a call as Hotline Coordinator from a caller in Devon concerned about a seal pup. From photos I could...
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Anglesey Mass Stranding
📸 Rose Thomas On Wednesday 31 January BDMLR was alerted to a mass stranding of six common dolphins at Valley on the island of Anglesey in North Wales. A response team of volunteer Marine Mammal Medics...
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Dolphin Stranding Cornwall
📷 Natalie Arrow On Friday 02 February BDMLR was alerted to a common dolphin swimming in circles in an intertidal muddy creek near Carnon Downs, Cornwall. On arrival a single dolphin was spotted...
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Lone dolphin stranding, Cornwall
On Friday 16 February, British Divers Marine Life Rescue was alerted to a lone common dolphin circling in the shallows in an inlet at Place, near Portscatho, in Cornwall. Several Medics were sent to...
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Striped Dolphin Stranding, Cornwall
On Saturday 17 February British Divers Marine Life Rescue was alerted to a stranded dolphin at Praa Sands in Cornwall with members of the public attempting to refloat it despite dangerously rough surf...
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Nazare, the Cumbria Turtle
On Friday 2 February British Divers Marine Life Rescue was alerted to a turtle found washed up on the beach in Cumbria. Medics attended and found a loggerhead turtle covered in algae and showing...
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Jersey Dolphins
📷 Donna De Gruchy On Monday 11 March, the British Divers Marine Life Rescue team in the Channel Islands was alerted to a pod of 13 common dolphins potentially in distress inside a shallow reef at La...
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Tim Bain Memorial Award
This annual award scheme has been created in remembrance of one of BDMLR’s longest serving volunteers, Tim Bain. He was a part of the charity for over twenty years, much of which he served as an Area...
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European Cetacean Society Conference
Each year, a delegation from BDMLR attends the prestigious event that is the annual conference of the European Cetacean Society. It is a place where hundreds of scientists and conservationists across...
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Orkney Risso’s Dolphins
On Monday, 13th of May, British Divers Marine Life Rescue was alerted to two Risso’s dolphins near the village of village of Burray, in Orkney, Scotland. Medics on the island responded to monitor the...
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Scotland premature common seal
On Monday 20 May we received a call from a lady who had come across a small seal pup while walking her dog on a remote beach in Western Scotland. The pup was all alone on the sand, it was very small...
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Race across North Scotland
On Friday 31 May reports were received by BDMLR and the Scottish SPCA regarding a very small seal pup on a North Uist beach, crying and following people. There was a dead seal noted nearby, but no...
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Today is World Oceans Day, and this year we want to raise awareness of climate change and its impact on seals, and how you can help us in our heart-wrenching battle against it. In recent years our...
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UPDATE: Pilot Whale Mass Stranding – Orkney
Photo: Emma Neave-Webb UPDATE 6:12pm: Sadly the remaining 12 pilot whales have been euthanased due to their condition deteriorating from the many hours they have spent stranded on the beach resulting...
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A Moment of Remembrance
It was exactly a year today that 55 pilot whales tragically stranded on the Isle of Lewis with only one individual successfully refloated. The other 54 sadly didn’t survive. We have been reflecting...
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Skye Minke Whale
On Friday 12 July, not even 24 hours after the mass stranding in Orkney, BDMLR were alerted to a minke whale that had got into difficulty off the coast of Broadford in the Isle of Skye. Kayakers had...
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Cornwall ringed seal
Around midday on Wednesday 24 July, the Cornish Seal Sanctuary (CSS) were informed of a small seal hauled out in a public place in Hayle estuary, Cornwall. As it was a somewhat unusual spot for a seal...
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