1,700 dead seals discovered on Russia’s Caspian coast

World About 1,700 seals have actually been discovered dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, authorities stated Sunday. No indication they were eliminated by poachers, states head of ecological centreThe Associated Press · Posted: Dec 04, 2022 9: 17 AM ET|Last Updated: 2 hours ago Journalists and federal government employees stroll near the bodies of dead seals on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, southern Russia, on Sunday. (RU-RTR Russian Television/The Associated Press) About 1,700 seals have actually been discovered dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, authorities stated Sunday. The authorities in the Russian province of Dagestan stated it’s still uncertain what triggered the animals’ deaths, however they likely passed away of natural causes. Regional authorities at first stated Saturday that 700 dead seals were discovered on the coast, however on Sunday, Zaur Gapizov, head of the Caspian Environmental Protection Center, stated that according to the state RIA Novosti news firm, after a wider assessment of the coast the variety of dead animals was 1,700 Gapizov stated the seals most likely passed away a number of weeks earlier. He included that there was no indication that they were eliminated by poachers. Professionals of the Federal Fisheries Agency and district attorneys checked the shoreline and gathered information for lab research study, which didn’t right away identify any toxins. Numerous previous events of mass deaths of seals were credited to natural causes. The information about the variety of seals in the Caspian differs extensively. The fisheries company has stated the general variety of Caspian seals is 270,000 to 300,000, while Gapizov’s centre put the number at 70,000
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