By symbolically adopting an animal, you are supporting WWF’s efforts to strengthen conservation and continue the recovery of this species.

Tourism and the associated human presence is displacing animals from their traditional habitats. Shrinkage of the areas they naturally inhabit prevents them from returning to their historical breeding sites.

By-catch is the accidental entanglement in nets set for catching fish. The victims are usually young seals, who die in the nets just a few weeks after birth. Every year, more than 2,000 seals die in this way.

Seals have long been treated as pests that fight for the same food, i.e. fish, and, as a result, they can destroy fishing nets. On the southern coast of the Baltic Sea (Germany, Poland, Russia and Lithuania), seals have been depleted by man.