About 2,500 dead seals have been found on the coast of the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia, conservation authorities said, a significant setback for the endangered species.
on Telegram. The ministry said autopsies conducted on some of the first few hundred seals found determined that they probably died of natural causes.Kazakhstan, one of five countries bordering the Caspian Sea — along with Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan — has on a few occasions this year reported the deaths of dozens of the seals, but not as large a number as Sunday’s toll.
Zaur Gapizov, the head of the Caspian Environmental Protection Center, told the Associated Press that it was likely the seals died a couple of weeks ago and that there were no signs they were killed or caught in fishing nets.
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