Lewis, a 2 weeks old male grey seal pup, was rescued from St Mary´s in the Isles of Scilly on the 1st of November 2000.   A white coat aged under a week, he was rescued due to his position and some unhappy circumstances. Lewis was found on a roadside just after a blind corner and even though he was repeatedly put back on the beach, he continued to make his way back onto the road.

A white pup with its mother had been spotted on the next cove round to Lewis the day before, but the mother had been found dead that morning. Flown to Penzance by hellicopter, Lewis was soon settled in the hospital. Weaned from milk onto fish he soon started to feed himself. With some TLC and a worming treatment, Lewis was moved outside to the nursery pools for his rehabilitation. His flipper tag ID number is 47.   He was released back into the wild on 14th February 2001 on the Isles of Scilly.

Update - 9th February 2024 : Lewis has been seen in the wild many times over the years around the Cornish coast by members of the Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT). Also on 3rd & 14th November 2021, 26th January 2022, 9th July 2022, 11th October 2022, © Photo left and information below are copyright of the CSGRT

12th, 18th and 20th November 2022, 19th & 20th December 2022, 6th, 16th & 20th January 2023, 25th September 2023, 29th January 2024 and 9th February 2024.

The members volunteer hundreds of hours of their own time to photo, identify, carry out surveys, monitor and watch over the seals.

Each seal´s fur pattern is unique and enables the CSGRT volunteers track them for life. Seals face many challenges, yet we all depend on them to balance our marine ecosystem, this is essential to make the oxygen we breathe. Seals are our globally rare wildlife tourist attraction, helping diversify coastal economic prosperity.