in the right mindset. and we are at the paris marathon as one competitor takes part to clear up his post lockdown blues. so don t go away. right, we are off to ireland next to meet some of its cutest residents. but seal pups that live around the coastline have been having an increasingly difficult time. more frequent storms are causing larger numbers of baby seals to be separated from their mothers before they ve learnt to fend for themselves. we ve been to meet a team of mostly volunteers who have devoted their lives to the rescuing and rehabilitation of lost seal pups. meet galaxy. she has become a bit of a social media star for seal rescue ireland, and we arejoining her on her biggest adventure yet. so in this pool, we ve got galaxy, who isjust about ready to be released we re gonna be releasing her tomorrow and she is a very special
seal because this is her second time in rehab. and she was one of the smallest. laughs. i just got soaked! galaxy the seal battled through the centre s icu and is the only seal they ve ever rescued twice. but why is it that seals like galaxy even need to be rescued? seals come to us for many reasons. they get trapped in netting, then we also have orphaning. two seals, a baby and mum, could be out swimming in the ocean, a storm rolls in unexpectedly, they get separated, and then that baby will come up onto the beach lost, looking for its mum, and that s when we will come in and we ll monitor it for a couple of hours as well, just to see if she does come back and find him, but often, they don t, so we will take that pup into care.