AS AN AMATEUR WILDLIFE photographer, ocean activist, and a volunteer for Tynemouth Seal Hospital, I was much interested in what Mark Carwardine had to say about humans’ interaction with dangerous animals (November 2022). We, as a society, have completely lost our connection to the natural environment. People may ‘behave’ for fear of getting fined, but it is rare to find people who really understand nature.
It is often uncertain why injured or sick seal pups end up in our