2,500 dead seals wash up on Russia’s Caspian coast
About 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia. The mass die-off was likely due to ‘natural causes’ rather than fishing or hunting, officials have said.
Caspian seals - the only mammals found in the Caspian sea - are classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.
In 1900, there were more than a million of the seals - but after a century of overfishing and habitat degradation, there are just 70,000 left, according to the Caspian Environmental Protection Centre.
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