The BBC's Hannah Bayman witnesses the birth of a pup by a rocky bank near Middlesbrough, the first to be captured on film in northern England.
Seal monitoring volunteer Linda Watson described seeing the birth as: "a perfect moment in your life."
A colony of seals is thriving in the industrial area of Teesside after a clean-up operation to reduce the effect of pollution.
Before the 1930s there were around 1,000 seals on the Greatham Creek nature reserve, but pollution from heavy industry drove them away.
There is now a healthy population of Common Seals and these are the only seals in Europe which have re-colonised.
The clip will be broadcast in Urban Jungle on Thursday, 1 August at 19:00 BST on BBC One North East and Cumbria and nationwide on the iPlayer for seven days thereafter.
Source: BBC
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