As plastic builds up in our waters and the fishing industry competes with marine mammals for dwindling resources, conflict is unavoidable. Seals may snatch a fish from a net, and in return, get entangled in the very gear meant to catch it. The result is a battle where everyone loses. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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As plastic builds up in our waters and the fishing industry competes with marine mammals for dwindling resources, conflict is unavoidable. Seals may snatch a fish from a net, and in return, get entangled in the very gear meant to catch it. The result is a battle where everyone loses. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Very Quick Seal Rescue #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Very Quick Seal Rescue #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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First seal rescue at Pelican Point for the year 2026! #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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First seal rescue at Pelican Point for the year 2026! #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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We Found Our Trash in the Wildest Place At Mowe Bay, the OCN rescuers Damian and Hawain encounter seals that are far less used to humans and much harder to catch. But it doesn’t matter how wild they are, plastic pollution doesn’t care. It reaches even the most untouched corners of our world. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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We Found Our Trash in the Wildest Place At Mowe Bay, the OCN rescuers Damian and Hawain encounter seals that are far less used to humans and much harder to catch. But it doesn’t matter how wild they are, plastic pollution doesn’t care. It reaches even the most untouched corners of our world. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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A single loop of plastic. A lifetime of suffering. This young seal should have been thriving. Instead, he was wasting away. A tight plastic packing strap had wrapped around his neck, cutting deeper with every movement, every breath, every meal he tried to swallow. Even if he managed to catch a fish, he couldn’t get it down. Slowly, his body weakened. Not from injury. Not from predators. From plastic. Box straps are used to secure shipping boxes. They’re everywhere, on every continent, in every o
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A single loop of plastic. A lifetime of suffering. This young seal should have been thriving. Instead, he was wasting away. A tight plastic packing strap had wrapped around his neck, cutting deeper with every movement, every breath, every meal he tried to swallow. Even if he managed to catch a fish, he couldn’t get it down. Slowly, his body weakened. Not from injury. Not from predators. From plastic. Box straps are used to secure shipping boxes. They’re everywhere, on every continent, in every o
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Cold Feet - But A Warm Rescue!
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Cold Feet - But A Warm Rescue!
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OCN rescuer Hawain adds another white plastic noose to our ever-growing pile. They’re easy to spot on the beach, around seal necks. It takes one second to cut a loop before throwing it out. Yet somehow, we’re finding hundreds of them entangled around seals every year. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Without a rescue, it’s only a matter of time until the loop becomes a noose. And in the moment the loop was cut, we could feel it: he felt relief. He paused. Breathed deeply, before darting back to the safety of the sea. We hope we never see him again. He deserves to live a life free of pain, free of plastic, and free of us. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Rescued Seal Takes Short Nap #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Plastic doesn’t disappear. It doesn’t dissolve. It doesn’t break down. It floats, it drifts, it sinks, and it entangles. There is no safe place left in the ocean. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Found In The Crowd!
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Seal Was Wrapped Like a Mummy! #shorts
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Seal Rescued from Plastic Pollution
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It’s a beautiful afternoon in Walvis Bay. The sun is setting, the air is calm, and Hawain is on patrol. He spots something ugly: a large male seal, resting peacefully, with a tight plastic packing strap around his neck. It’s the kind of plastic used to bind boxes and pallets, common in ports and shipping. But this one has turned into a noose. Left uncut and discarded, it was on track to end this seal’s life, slowly and painfully. But today, luck was on his side. The seal is deep asleep, unaware
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Almost Missed This Entangled Seal! #shorts
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Seal Rescue Patrol Update #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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He Almost Escaped—But We Had to Help Marine animals like our seals don't have a voice, so we will lend them ours: stop plastic pollution, before it destroys our marine ecosystem! #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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This seal was wrapped like a mummy! When we found him, he was completely entangled in a pink vegetable sack - from head to tail, tightly cocooned in fine netting. He could barely move, and we still don’t know how he managed to make it back to shore. Most animals in situations like this never do. This case shows the ugly reality of plastic entanglement: most affected marine animals suffer and die at sea, unseen. We only get to help the ones that somehow survive long enough to come ashore. We need
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Hard to Miss – Unless You’re a Seal! This young seal was spotted in time and freed before permanent damage was done. But for every one we save, there are more we never get to see. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Strong Baby Seal Saved From Gill Net #shorts
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Almost Missed This Entangled Seal! Hidden in plain sight among hundreds of seals, a thin black rope wrapped tightly around one young seal’s neck. The entanglement was so subtle, we nearly missed it. Sadly, most modern ropes are synthetic. They’re plastic. They don’t biodegrade. And once they’re wrapped around a wild animal, they stay. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Chaos for One Seal Rescue Slippery rocks, crashing waves, and the stench of death; this is Cape Cross, and this is what it takes to save one entangled seal. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Baby Seal Rescued From Plastic Strap #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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This rescue never happened. A strong, healthy seal washed ashore dead, suffocated or drowned after getting stuck inside a discarded rain jacket. It’s a brutal and sobering reminder of what’s really happening out here. Our videos often show dramatic rescues, smiling team members, seals running back to the ocean. But that’s not the full picture. For every life we manage to save, there are countless others we never get to. They die alone, hidden, and quietly, like this one. #ocn #oceanconservation
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Brave Baby Seal Rescued #shorts
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Entangled in a Fisherman’s Mess #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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This Seal Was Wrapped in Construction Waste These straps are meant to secure bricks during transport, but once removed, they’re light, flexible, and deadly. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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A Hotspot for Hidden Suffering Our seals are the lucky ones. They haul out on land, and we have a chance to save them. But beneath the surface, turtles, dolphins, and countless other species die in silence. No rescues. No second chances. #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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Baby Seal Saved From Green Rope #ocn #oceanconservation #sealrescues #plasticpollution #raisingawareness | Ocean Conservation Namibia
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