BA Better World Community Fund Colleague Giving has provided £2,380 of match funding
Rescue Stretchers and Rescue Specialised Net
Thurso, , United Kingdom
Aim: We would like to purchase two stretchers for transporting seals, and possibly any other marine mammals, as well as a seal net.
Caithness Seal Rehab & Release officially opened the hospital doors for admittance on the 1st November 2022. We had our first rescued seal pup in on the 8th November 2022. Since then, we have been really busy.
In the winter of 2022, we admitted 14 grey seal pups.
In the summer of 2023, we admitted six common seal pups and then in the winter we admitted 21 grey seal pups.
In the summer of 2024, we admitted 16 common seal pups, almost tripling in numbers from the year before. Then 21 grey seal pups in the winter season.
In total we have rescued 78 seal pups and two juveniles, making a total of 80. We have released 69 pups and two juveniles, making the release total 71. Unfortunately losing nine pups between 2022 and 2025. Our success rate in rehabilitating and releasing seal pups and juveniles is 90%.
We would like to be equipped to do safer and easier rescues with the new stretchers, which are produced in the UK, and a very unique seal catching net. unfortunately the net is not produced in the UK so we have to buy it from America.
The net will come in very handy for when we are rescuing juveniles when are generally bigger and stronger.
Both the stretcher and the net will be available for any other rescue organisation to use should they require them. We will be the only seal rescue centre in Scotland to have a seal rescue net.
BA Better World Community Fund – Planet has provided £705 of match funding
Avios Donations has provided £10 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 17th July 2025