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Caspian Sea Decline

14/04/202530/04/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, global warming, level decline, sturgeon

Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking,

The Caspian seal pup. ©Sarah Del Ben, Central Asian Institute of Ecological Research, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level

11/04/202515/10/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, global warming, level decline, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, sturgeon

© 2025. Rebecca Court (1,12),* Matteo Lattuada (2,3,13), Nataliya Shumeyko (4), Mirgaliy Baimukanov (5), Tariyel Eybatov (6), Altynay Kaidarova (7), Elchin V. Mamedov (8), Eldar Rustamov (9), Aselle Tasmagambetova (7), Matthias Prange (10),

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev at IV Session of National Kurultai, March 13-14, 2025.

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International Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation

15/03/202507/05/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, International Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation, IV Session of National Kurultai, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev, Kazakhstan

On March 13-14, 2025, IV Session of National Kurultai was held in Burabay, Kazakhstan. Established in June, 2022, National Kurultai is a consultative and

Monitoring of Caspian seals. The Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, March 12, 2025. The photo credited by Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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Aerial Survey of Caspian Seals in Kazakhstan

15/03/202515/05/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment aerial survey, Buzachi Peninsula, Caspian seals, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, Tyub-Karagan Peninsula, Tyulenyi Islands archipelago

On March 12, 2025, specialists from Zhaiyk-Caspian Interregional Basin Inspectorate of Fisheries, the Akimat of Mangystau Region, Qazaq Balyk Republican Association of

The sivar - a moulted Caspian seal pup at 1 month old. The Buzachi Peninsula, Kazakhstan. March 4, 2025. A still from the video by Karazhanbasmunai JSC

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It is Your Turn, Comrade Prosecutor!

14/03/202526/03/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Buzachi Peninsula, Caspian seal, Caspian seal pup, illegal sealing, Kalamkas, Karazhanbas, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, poachers, sivar

In late February – early March 2025, in the northern part of the Buzachi Peninsula, workers at Karazhanbas and Kalamkas oil fields began

Dead Caspian seals on the coast near Bautino, Kazakhstan. Photo from LADA.KZ article.

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Mass Seal Stranding in Late 2024

09/02/202527/10/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Dagestan, dead Caspian seals, Kalamkas, Karazhanbas, Malyy Zhemchuzhnyy, mass mortality, Tyub-Karagan, Tyuleniy Islands Archipelago

Over the last three months of 2024, storm winds stranded thousands of dead seals onto the coast in the Northern and Middle Caspian

Capturing Caspian seals for researches on a sandbank in the north-eastern Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. Still from the film "Caspian Seal", NCOC N.V., FC RK., 2023.

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Results of Caspian Seal Research in 2020-2024

14/01/202517/01/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, NCOC, North Caspian Operating Company NV, Phoca capsica, Pusa caspica

North Caspian Operating Company N.V. (NCOC) has published reports and presentations on results of comprehensive scientific research of the Caspian seal population

A group of Caspian seals hauled out at a rocky islet, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan. Photo by Dr. T.M. Eybatov, General Director of Museum of Natural History, the Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan.

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Caspian Seal in Red Book of Azerbaijan

28/12/202415/01/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspin seal, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Museum of Natural History, Phoca caspica, Pusa capsica, Red Book of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan was the first country red-listed the Caspian seal in 1993. This was largely due to the efforts of Dr. Tariel M. Eybatov, General Director of

A specialist from IHE examines a dead Caspian seal, the Tyub-Karagan Peninsula, Kazakhstan, October, 2024. Photo by Lada.kz.

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Stranded on Tyub-Karagan

30/10/202405/11/2024 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, mass mortality, mass stranding, pollution, Tyub-Karagan

The number of dead Caspian seals being stranded on the Tyub-Karagan Peninsula coast in Kazakhstan is increasing. On October 10,

Seals in the Caspian. Photo by Anatoliy Ustinenko.

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Viral Metagenomic Survey of Caspian Seals

27/10/202411/01/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, diseases, influenza B, Phoca capsica, Pusa caspica, viral metagenome, virome

© 2024. Kobey Karamendin (1), * Simon J. Goodman (2), Yermukhammet Kasymbekov (1), Marat Kumar (1), Sardor Nuralibekov (1), Aidyn Kydyrmanov (1). * (1) Laboratory of Viral Ecology, Research and Production