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Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

Caspian seal rookeries are disappearing in the Caspian

17/01/201907/01/2022 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal haul-out sites, Caspian seal pups, Caspian seal rookeries, death due to icebreakers, Durneva Island, icebreakers influence, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, Kendirli, Kulaly, Phoca caspica, puppies, Pusa caspica, rookeries, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, the Kazakh Bay, the Middle Caspian, the Northern Caspian

Over the past 20 years, the number of Caspian seals has declined by 4 times, and over the century – by 10 times.

Caspian seals, Kendirli, Kazakhstan. Photo by Mirgaliy Baimukanov

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Save the Caspian seal

19/09/201811/01/2022 Kaspika 0 Comment hunting on Caspian seals, icebreakers, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika, Kaydak, Kendirli rookery, Kulaly Island, Myortvyy Kultuk, newborn pups, Peshnoy Peninsula, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, seal haul-out sites, seal rookery, seal slaughter, sealing, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Durneva Islands, the Kendirli Cape, the Komsomolets Bay, the Mangyshlakskiy Bay, the Tyulen'i Islands, the Zyuydvectovye Shalygi Islands, the Zyuydvestovye Shalygi Islands

This summer, the employees of the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology (Irgely, Kazakhstan) filmed the third documentary “Save the Caspian

Border guard ships, Kazakhstan. Photo by Bedenko G.

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How the Caspian is being killed

09/07/201809/07/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment Aktau, beluga, border guards, colada, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, Phoca caspica, poachers, Pusa caspica, Shevchenko, sturgeon, sturgeon poaching, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

During the spawning of sturgeon in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea, the border guard ships almost every day

The Caspian Sea. The photo by Polina Delia.

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In pursuit of a seal

18/04/201814/05/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment Astrakhan, Kaspika, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, Swan Lake, the Caspian seal

Seals were brought to Astrakhan in the mid-nineties; they were placed in a city pond. This event was perhaps the same as if

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The Caspian Octopus

27/03/201815/04/2018 Kaspika 2 Comments black caviar, Dagestan, Kaspika, sturgeon caviar, sturgeon poaching, the Astrakhan Region, the Border Service of FSS Russia, the Caspian Sea

The Caspian Octopus is a documentary film shown recently on the First Channel in Russia. It was filmed several years ago, but the

Moulting Caspian seals, the Kendirli Spit, Kazakhstan

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History of the Caspian seal. Commercial hunting and researches

15/03/201807/01/2022 Kaspika 0 Comment commercial seal hunting, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, sealing, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology

For over two years, the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology (Kazakhstan) has been filming a documentary about Caspian seals. Commercial hunting, unknown

The Caspian seals, Maly Zhemchuzhny Island. Photo by Y. Polonskiy.

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The seal is not being protected

10/02/201815/04/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment Kaspika, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, The Red Data Book of Russia

Ecologists are trying to inscribe the Caspian seal into the new edition of the Russian Red Data Book. The seal has not been redlisted

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Bad news

12/01/201806/05/2018 Kaspika 2 Comments ecocide, endangered species, Kaspika, newborn pup of the Caspian seal, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, scientists’ open letter to V.V. Putin, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Commission on the Red Book, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the Commission on the Red Book, the Red Book of Russia

We should update you on this. In February last year, the Commission on the Red Book at the Ministry of Natural Resources and

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Equilibrium in nature will recover…

20/09/201725/01/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment global warming, Kaspika, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, sea level fluctuations, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian Sea ice, the Caspian seal, VNIIOkeangeologia

An interview of Tatyana Guryshkina, a correspondent of the magazine “Success as a way of life”, with Pyotr Ivanovich Bukharitsin, Doctor of Geography, Professor,

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Fish poaching in Astrakhan

24/07/201714/03/2022 Kaspika 0 Comment Astrakhan, Kaspika, Phoca caspica, poachers, poaching, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

It so happened, that one of the representatives of this “profession” agreed to talk to me. From the base, where