Caspian seal

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Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

A Caspian seal pup, the Ural Saddle, the northern Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. Author Zhanarbek Amankulov. Credited by CAIER.

KazMunayGas suspended its joint fields development

The development of Kalamkas-Sea and Khazar offshore oil and gas fields in Kazakhstan sector of the Northern Caspian had been officially suspended

Participants in the meeting of the Russian Red Book Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, August 18, 2026. Source: Credited by Compass Foundation.

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Caspian seal is on agenda of Russian Red Book Commission

20/08/202605/10/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, Compass Foundation, mass death, mass mortality, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, Russian Red Book Commission

On August 18, 2026, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation hosted a meeting of the Commission on Rare and Endangered

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278 years since the birth of J.F. Gmelin

08/08/202631/08/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Carl Linnaeus, Caspian seal, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Phoca caspica, Systema Naturae

August 8 marks the 278th anniversary of the birth of Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804), an outstanding German naturalist, physician, zoologist, botanist and chemist,

Moulting Caspian seals on a haul-out site, the northeastern Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. UAV image credited by the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology.

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Distribution patterns of Caspian seal island haul-outs

23/07/202627/07/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, haul-out sites, IMMA, nature reserve, regression

© 2026. Mirgaliy Baimukanov (1), Mukhabat Sirazhitdinova (1, 2), Assel Baimukanova (1, 2)*, Sultan Ryskulov (1), and Saule Assylbekova (3). (1) Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Almaty, Kazakhstan. (2) Al-Farabi Kazakh

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Monitoring of Caspian seals on Kulaly Island

26/04/202606/06/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, Caspian seals, Kulaly Island, mass mortality, mass stranding

At the end of April 2026, Qazaq Balyk Republican Association of Fisheries and Aquaculture and the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology conducted monitoring

Conclusion of an agreement between Siberian Wellness Company and Caspian Seal State Nature Reserve, Astana, Kazakhstan, April 22, 2026.

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Cooperation on the Caspian seal

24/04/202625/04/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, nature reserve, PES-2026, Siberian Wellness

On April 22, 2026, in Astana, Siberian Wellness Company and Caspian Seal State Nature Reserve of the Fisheries Committee, Ministry of Agriculture

A dead Caspian seal pup, a sivar, on the Tyub-Karagan Peninsula coast, Kazakhstan, April 2026.

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Mass stranding of Caspian seals

17/04/202602/05/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, death, Kazakhstan, mass stranding, Tyub-Karagan

During monitoring of the Caspian Sea coast, the Tyub-Karagan Peninsula, Kazakhstan, stranded Caspian seals were found. During monitoring of the Caspian Sea coast,

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Blueing the Caspian Sea Project

14/04/202621/04/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment biodiversity conservation, Blueing the Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, ESMF, GEF, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, pollution monitoring, UNEP, World Bank

The document “Environmental and Social Management Framework” (ESMF) has been approved. It sets out in detail the main provisions of the International Blueing

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To preserve biodiversity of the Caspian Sea

10/04/202614/05/2026 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, Compass Foundation, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, Lukoil

Compass Foundation for Support and Development of Environmental Initiatives and PJSC Lukoil have joined efforts to preserve the biodiversity of the Caspian Sea.