A dead seal that has washed up on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Dagestan region. – The bodies of at least 2,500 endangered Caspian seals appeared on the Caspian shoreline of Russia’s Dagestan region in recent days, the local Ministry for Natural Resources said Sunday, December 3. According to a statement by the Caspian Nature Preserve Center, the creatures likely died about two weeks before being washed ashore and no external signs indicating a violent cause of death had been found. REUTERS/Video Keyframe
MOSCOW — More than 2,500 dead seals have washed up on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Dagestan region, the natural resources ministry said Monday.
“Along the entire coast of the Caspian Sea on the territory of the republic, specialists of environmental structures are continuing measures to count the number of dead seals,” Dagestan’s natural resources ministry said.
The cause of the deaths was not immediately clear but tests are being carried out, a spokeswoman said.
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