Seal pups and Seal Sitters are making headlines in all the print media, as well as NBC, ABC, FOX News, and Evening Magazine. To find out more about what the media is saying, please click on the “media coverage” links below.

Members of the media, please email our media representative, Brenda Peterson.

TRAINING SESSIONS BEGIN AUGUST, 2008

Seal Sitters’ volunteer training sessions of the 2008 Season are on Sunday, August 10th and Tuesday, September 9th. You must attend training to become affiliated with Seal Sitters. Find out more.

NATIONAL MAGAZINE FEATURES ARTICLE ON SEAL SITTERS

(August 2008)

Wildlife Conservation Magazine, a national publication by the Wildlife Conservation Society, features a Brenda Peterson article about Seal Sitters. “Seal Sitting: On Beach Patrol in Seattle” appears in the September/October 2008 issue (available at better newsstands) and is the lead story on the magazine’s website.

(March 2008)

This little seal pup was “on death’s

door” when found by Seal Sitters, rescued from a West Seattle beach by PAWS and taken to their facility for rehab. Weighing a mere 28 pounds at the time and suffering from parasitic infestation, he was a respectable 70-pound ball of blubber when released back into Puget Sound two months later. Here “Lucky”  looks back to thank PAWS staffers and a Seal Sitter volunteer before swimming off with a second chance at life.

ORION MAGAZINE FEATURES PETERSON ARTICLE “SAVING SEALS”

(January 2008)

Orion Magazine, one of the premier periodicals on nature, culture and the environment, featured an article by Seal Sitter Brenda Peterson, “Saving Seals: Our duties in this world and beyond” in the January/February issue. “Two friends keep watch over a baby seal hauled up on a beach. Both are compelled by a love of this world, though one is seduced by thoughts of the next.” ~ Orion

Click here to read the article in its entirety.

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (newspaper)

Seal sitting by the Salish Sea

Group takes turn watching over Alki seal pups

KING 5 News (NBC)

Seal sitters protect baby seals on busy beaches

Slide show

Seals need sitters too (video)

Injured seal turns up at Alki Beach

Witnesses report seal killing at Alki Beach

KOMO 4 News (ABC)

Conservation group blames tribal fishermen for dead seal pups at Alki (click on “watch the story” video)

Baby seal jumbles plan for mass baptism

WEST SEATTLE HERALD (newspaper)

Two seal pups nap at Alki

Seal caught in net, then released, thought dead

Seal pup death called ‘unfortunate accident’