the Caspian seal – Kaspika

Kaspika

Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

The mass death of Caspian seals, the Caspian Sea, Dagestan.

Military drills, pollution or trawling?

18/04/202101/05/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxia, asphyxiation, commercial sprat fishing, Dagestan, Kaspika, kilka, Makhachkala, mass mortality of Caspian seals, Phoca caspica, Port-Petrovsk, Pusa caspica, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Caspian sprat, the common sprat, the Marine Mammal Council, trawl, trawl vessels

It was trawl fishing that caused the death of seals, says Dagestan ecologist Ernest Gamzatov. The captains of fishing vessels

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The Caspian seal pup, the Caspian Seal Research and Rehabilitation Center, Aktau, Kazakhstan.

Oil workers rescued a seal pup

12/04/202130/04/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment Aktau, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, NCOC N.V., Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Caspian Seal Research and Rehabilitation Center

On 29 March 2021, NCOC employees found a one-month-old seal pup on the Kazakh coast of the Caspian Sea near

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XI Marine Mammals of the Holarctic International Conference

Conservation Challenges for Land-locked Seals

09/03/202110/04/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment by-catch, Conservation Challenges for Landlocked Seals Session, global climate change, illegal fisheries, impacts of pollution, invasive species, Kaspika, Marine Mammals of the Holarctic International Conference, mass epizootics, Phoca caspica, poachers, poaching, Pusa caspica, sealing, the Caspian seal

On March 4-5, 2021, within the framework of the XI Marine Mammals of the Holarctic International Conference, Conservation Challenges for

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The International Workshop of the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force

08/03/202118/03/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, harbour porpoises, Kaspika, marine mammals, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Azov Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the IUCN, the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force, the Mediterranean monk seal

The 7th IMMA Workshop spotlights threatened marine mammals in the Black Sea, Turkish Straits & Caspian Sea. The seventh workshop

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Dead seals on the Dagestan coast of the Caspian Sea, December 2020.

Caspian seals died in trawls and fishing nets

29/12/202016/01/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxiation, commercial sprat fishing, Dagestan, fishing net, IPEE RAS, IUCN Red List, Kaliningrad fishermen, Kaspika, Marine Mammal Council, mass mortality of Caspian seals, Moskvarium, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian kilka, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the common kilka, trawl, trawl vessels

2020 finally threw another ecological DISASTER – THREE HUNDRED (!) dead Caspian seals were found on the coast of Dagestan.

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Nataliya R. Shumeiko, an employee of IPEE RAS, Head of Kaspika Caspian Seals Conservation Agency. Photo by Irina Suvorova.

IPEE RAS expedition has returned from Dagestan

22/12/202002/01/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment CIBR DSC RAS, Dagestan, IPEE RAS, Kaspika, mass mortality, Moskvarium, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, VNIRO.

The IPEE RAS expedition has returned from the Dagestan coast of the Caspian Sea with collected materials to find out the reasons for the mass

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Scientists from Moscow are finding out reasons for the death of Caspian seals

Scientists from Moscow are finding out reasons for the death of seals

10/12/202001/01/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxia, Dagestan, death of seals, Kaspika, Makhachkala, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

On the Caspian coast, several dozen dead seals have been found (the species are listed in the Red Data Book

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The Caspian seals haul-out site on a sandbank in the area of the North Caspian Sea Canal. Photo by Mulyaev A.N.

The Caspian seal, Autumn, 2020

29/11/202008/02/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment Astrakhanskiy State Nature Bioshere Reserve, haul-out site, IPEE RAS, KAPE, Maly Zhemchuzhny Irland, NCOC N.V., Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, sandbank, SPC M and V, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the North Caspian, the North Caspian Sea Channel, the Volga-Caspian Chanel

This autumn, within the framework of the International Caspian Seal Research Program for the Northern Caspian in 2019-2023, supported by NCOC

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A Caspian seal pup, the Northern Caspian. The International Caspian Expedition, February 2019. Photo by Nataliya Shumeyko, Head of Kaspikca Caspian Seals Conservation Agency.

The Caspian seal has been inscribed into the Red Book of Kazakhstan

29/11/202007/12/2020 Kaspika 0 Comment Bonn Convention, Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, IUCN Red List, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian seal, the Caspian seal pup, the Red Data Book of Azerbaijan, the Red Data Book of Kazakhstan, The Red Data Book of Russia, the Red Data Book of Turkmenistan

The decision to inscribe the seal into the Red Book of the Republic of Kazakhstan was made by the Interdepartmental

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The Caspian: Hidden in the Cradle

The Caspian: Hidden in the Cradle

07/08/2020 Kaspika 0 Comment Kaspika, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. This region, located in the heart of one

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