confirmed the presence of a shipping container at Pevensey Bay last week<\/a>. It also said that polystyrene foam had appeared on the beach there.\n<\/p>\n\n The unfortunate seal was seen by local resident Brigitte Crunden, who was walking her dog near Normans Bay when she noticed it on the beach.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was a frightful sight\u201d, 66-year-old Brigitte said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very said thing to see. We’ve only got one little seal that swims around here.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It\u2019s quite upsetting.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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Brigitte said it was ‘sad to see’ (Image: Brigitte Crunden)\n<\/p>\n
\n Brigitte said the beach was strewn with pollution and debris.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot around here lately\u201d, she said. \u201cLots of onions, onion sacks, chips, pieces of polystyrene.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Brigitte noted there was a tragic symbolism to the seal\u2019s death.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cIt sums up how much pollution is going into the sea, especially pollution that we don\u2019t even see or know about.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It just shows the impact the wrecked containers are having on our wildlife.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSeeing that dead seal wrapped up in an onion sack… you couldn\u2019t summarise it better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lifeless creature was found this morning at Pevensey Bay, wrapped in an orange sack used to carry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-384856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}