The BBC news agency reported on December 4, 2022, that Russian officials had found the carcasses of dead seals washed up on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in the south of the country, increasing to more than 2,500 after previous reports said to be around 700. But further investigation led to the discovery of more remains. And the counting of numbers is not finished yet.
Saur Kapisov, head of the Caspian Environmental Protection Center has stated in a statement that these seals may have died two weeks ago. without any evidence indicating that They were either dead, killed or caught in fishing nets.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Republic of Dadestan, the county in the far south-western region of Russia, told Telegram that a large number of the carcasses were found in two river estuaries, Zuluk and Shurica, and that experts took samples of the carcasses to to be examined. But the cause of death should be known after the results of the laboratory tests.
Caspian sea seals Critically endangered by the International Organization for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) since 2008, the species currently has a population of just over 70,000, up from more than a million a century ago. because they are heavily hunted and affected by industrial pollution
