{"id":800615,"date":"2026-10-12T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800615\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:20:10","slug":"three-seals-rescued-in-norfolk-after-plastic-waste-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800615\/","title":{"rendered":"Three seals rescued in Norfolk after plastic waste injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The animals, currently being cared for at East Winch Wildlife Centre, were all found in Norfolk in recent weeks, entangled in man-made debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One was trapped in a flying ring, another with a plastic bag around its neck and the third was caught in fishing gear.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A photo of the ring (Image: RSPCA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Evangelos Achilleos, centre manager, said: &#8220;It is heartbreaking and just unbelievable that we have had three entangled seals rescued in as many weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are just so grateful to the rescue teams who patiently wait until the right opportunity to save the seals and then bring them to us for rehabilitation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"RSPCA East Winch has been looking after three seals which have been seriously injured due to man-made debris\"\/>One seal was caught on a plastic bag (Image: RSPCA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;What is also so upsetting is that all the items caught on these seals were man-made.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  East Winch has dealt with 104 seals with similar &#8220;necklace&#8221; injuries since 2008, caused by netting, line, or plastic rings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Of those, 95 were successfully rehabilitated and released, while nine died or were put to sleep due to the severity of their injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The animals, currently being cared for at East Winch Wildlife Centre, were all found in Norfolk in recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-800615","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\/800615","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=800615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}