US PROGRAMS - partial list
[ Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods ]
One of the longest-running harbor seal protection and monitoring programs in United States.
(their "Seal Watch" program, established 1985, is the inspiration for this site)

[ Carpinteria Seal Watch ]
Citizens' group currently organized through UC Santa Barbara Biology Department - begun 1988

[ La Jolla Friends of the Seals ]
Non-profit, all-volunteer organization established in 1999 to protect La Jolla colony at Casa Beach

[ Marine Animal Lifeline ]
Primary organization in Southern and Midcoast Maine licensed to rescue and rehabilitate marine mammals.

[ Allied Whale ]
Stranding Network member covering Midcoast Maine to Canada - project of College of the Atlantic

[ Marine Mammal Center ]
Stranding Network member covering California Coast from Cape Mendocino to San Luis Obispo - full program of protection through education.

More -- equally worthy -- organizations listed in the [ NMFS Stranding Network ]

UK PROGRAMMES - partial list
[ International Animal Rescue ]
Works with UK seals and saves bears in India, too.

[ British Divers Marine Life Rescue ]
Direct, active assistance to threatened individual seals and to colonies.

[ Save Our Seals Foundation ]
Rescue, rehabilitation, and advocacy in Scotland.

[ Tara Seal Research Centre ]
Seal research into care, conservation, and consultation from Northern Ireland.

[ Orkney Seal Rescue ]
On the front lines of the seal-fisheries interaction, est. 1988 to cope with PDV epidemic.

EU PROGRAMS - partial list
[ Zeehondencrèche - Lenie 't Hart ]
Pioneer seal rescue program in continental Europe.
(Her Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre, est. in Pieterburen, Netherlands in 1971, was the first animal rehabilitation centre to obtain an ISO 9001-2000 quality certificate. )