Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology – Kaspika

Kaspika

Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

Monitoring on Tyub-Karagan Peninsula

12/10/202403/11/2024 Kaspika 0 Comment dead Caspian seals, expedition, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, Tyub-Karagan Peninsula

Since the end of September, 2024, specialists from the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kazakhstan, have been monitoring the coastal zone in the west

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Atlas of Caspian Seal Haul-Out Sites

22/03/202411/01/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment atlas, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, shalygi, the Caspian seal, the Caspian seal haul-out sites, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan

© 2022. M.T. Baimukanov, M.K. Serazhitdinova, A.M. Baimukanova. The Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Atlas of the Haul-Out Sites of the Caspian

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Caspian seals on a shalyga in the north-eastern Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. Photo by M.T. Baimukanov.

In search of the Caspian Seal

22/03/202412/05/2024 Kaspika 0 Comment decline in numbers, haul-out sites, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, national action plan, pollution, reserve for the Caspian seal, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

Our colleagues from the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kazakhstan, created the short documentary film «In Search of the Caspian Seal» about the only

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Caspian seals empathize with each other

11/05/202015/11/2024 Kaspika 0 Comment fishing net, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

During our studies the in 2015, we got the feeling that Caspian seals seemed to empathize with each other… In

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Caspian seals, Kendirly, spring, 2017.

Sea of fishing nets and garbage

02/05/202025/11/2022 Kaspika 0 Comment Chinese fishing nets, fishing nets, garbage, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, sea trash, sturgeon, sturgeon fishing net, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

The film is about the Caspian and how thoughtlessly people pollute it, leaving no chance in surviving for its inhabitants

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Caspian seals, Kendirli, Kazakhstan. Photo by Mirgaliy Baimukanov

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

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How to save the Caspian seal (Pusa caspica)?

07/01/201815/05/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, conservation, conservation priorities, conservation threats, endangered species, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika, Kazakhstan legislation, Phoca caspica, population status, Pusa caspica, seal commercial hunting, sealing

© 2017. М.T. Baimukanov, the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Irgeli, Karasay District, Almaty Region, the Republic of Kazakhstan, e-mail: institute_he@ihe.kz. The Caspian seal (Pusa

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