{"id":643296,"date":"2026-06-17T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643296\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:58:08","slug":"cornwall-group-wants-ban-on-flying-rings-blamed-for-seal-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643296\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall group wants ban on flying rings blamed for seal deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigners said seals often investigated the floating toys as playthings, but once a ring slips over their head it becomes impossible to remove. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the animal grows, the plastic cuts deeper into the skin, causing severe pain and infection. Sayer warned: &#8220;One ring can kill more than one marine creature, so the creature dies, the ring floats again, and goes on having another life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cornwall-66108785\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A seal called Wings who was found in St Ives in 2023<\/a>, was an example of the damage that rings can do, said the Cornish Seal Sanctuary which cares for seals snagged by flying rings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A ring had caught tightly around Wings&#8217; neck, but it was removed after the female seal was successfully rescued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigners said it had been around her neck for two weeks and begun to strangle her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said many seals injured by the rings were never found or could not be saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners said seals often investigated the floating toys as playthings, but once a ring slips over their head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-643296","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\/643296","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=643296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}