See all the sources for Episode 1: “UK Seal Colonies” below!

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Videos:

• London’s Wild Side – Grey Seal and Fisherman in Central London Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrcJ-e2CzQ&t=175s&ab_channel=BBCEarth
  
• Frank Fraser Darling in ‘Making Scotland’s Landscape’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bzl8v
  
• Brigitte Bardot visits Newfoundland seal hunt in 1978: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1448537667733
  
• AP Archive – News Coverage of the Orkney seal cull debate in 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67AOgcEypc
  

Episode Sources:

The Common and Grey Seals of the North Atlantic:

• https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/marine-mammals-and-sea-turtles/common-seal

• https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/marine-mammals-and-sea-turtles/grey-seal

• https://www.mammal.org.uk/species-hub/full-species-hub/discover-mammals/species-harbour-seal/

• https://www.mammal.org.uk/species-hub/full-species-hub/discover-mammals/species-grey-seal/

• https://www.cornwallsealgroup.co.uk/about-seals/

• http://www.mammal.org.uk/sites/default/files/factsheets/common_seal_complete.pdf
  

UK and European Seal Conservation – Past and Present:

• Lambert, R. A. (2002). The Grey Seal in Britain: A Twentieth Century History of a Nature Conservation Success: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20723254?seq=1

• Yalden, D., & Barrett, P. (1999). The history of British Mammals. T. & A. D. Poyser

• https://www.inbrief.co.uk/animal-law/conservation-of-seals-act-1970/
  
• https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/greenpeace-turns-40-the-story-of-its-beginnings-is-one-of-idealism-infighting-and-drama-on-the-high-seas-10482178.html
  
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/17/newsid_2491000/2491329.stm
  
• https://data.gov.uk/dataset/30f2a3fa-5692-4eca-b590-78fe25ac39c7/seal-conservation-areas-common-or-harbour-seals-phoca-vitulina
  
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/42869440?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
  
• https://brill.com/view/journals/estu/10/1/article-p19_2.xml
  
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-22695243
  
• https://geographical.co.uk/nature/wildlife/item/3009-seal-change
  
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-24709651
  
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/15/newsid_2503000/2503851.stm
  
• http://www.protectourseals.org.uk/seals/
  
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protected-marine-species/seals
  
• https://allaboutuklaw.co.uk/conservation-of-seals/

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/case-against-a-grey-seal-cull-in-scotland/D02A0EF917834E8718C19951CD2412B9

• https://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/animal_welfare/seals/index_en.htm

• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/23/seal-farne-islands-population-boom

• https://brill.com/view/book/9789004378612/BP000004.xml?rskey=mTgvly&result=3

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/aqc.3134

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/aqc.3100

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47108133

• https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/outrage-hundreds-seals-secretly-slaughtered-5469847

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43532396

• https://www.gov.scot/news/tougher-penalties-for-animal-and-wildlife-crime/

• https://www.wssociety.co.uk/features/2021/2/1/animals-and-wildlife-penalties-protections-and-powers-scotland-act-2020-a-bunny-hop-in-the-right-direction-for-animal-welfare-but-a-whisker-away-from-sufficient-protection-1

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/scottish-salmon-farmers-to-be-banned-from-shooting-seals

• https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/scottish-farmers-ban-shooting-seals-protect-fisheries-449244

• https://www.hsi.org/news-media/scotland-bans-seal-killing/

• https://www.cornwallsealgroup.co.uk/2019/07/do-not-disturb/

• https://www.cornwallsealgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Disturbance-National-DO-NOT-DISTURB-public-report-for-release.pdf

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