Crowds gathering to watch the ‘Wally’ the walrus as well as people on paddleboards, canoes and jet skis trying to get a close-up of view of him is certainly not following the advice of either the old or updated Countryside Code (launched last week) to “give wild animals plenty of space”.

Seals are a much more common sighting but so is their disturbance. The Seal Alliance has launched a campaign backed by Defra aimed at educating the public about the impacts human interactions can have on seals and case studies of their disturbance around the UK Click here. Timely as Covid restrictions are beginning to ease.