{"id":761216,"date":"2026-09-05T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761216\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:32:12","slug":"cornish-charity-backs-push-for-legal-protection-of-resting-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761216\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish charity backs push for legal protection of resting seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sayers said: &#8220;Seals need sleep just like we do&#8230; When they&#8217;re disturbed, they can panic, stampede across a beach or throw themselves into the sea, risking serious injury.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The campaign follows concerns over what the trust described as the &#8220;hidden cost&#8221; of disturbance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said frequent interruptions could affect seals&#8217; immune systems, hormone levels and ability to recover between feeding trips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sayers also expressed concern about this year&#8217;s seal pup season, describing it as one of the worst on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;More than half of the seal pups we&#8217;ve recorded so far this year have been dead or dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said until this year, the trust had never recorded seal pups being born in every month of a calendar year, and believed climate change had influenced breeding patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sayers said: &#8220;Seals need sleep just like we do&#8230; When they&#8217;re disturbed, they can panic, stampede across a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-761216","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\/761216","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=761216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}