Greater than 130 seals discovered useless on Caspian seashores in Kazakhstan | World News

Greater than 130 endangered seals have been discovered useless on Kazakh seashores of the Caspian Sea, officers mentioned Wednesday.

"Carcasses of useless seals have been discovered," a spokesman for Kazakhstan's ecology ministry informed AFP.

His ministry mentioned 131 seals had been discovered useless on Caspian Sea seashores within the nation's west.

Autopsies shall be carried out and Kazakh environmental specialists mentioned soil and water samples from the world can be analysed.

The Caspian seal, the one such species current within the Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland physique of water, was positioned by the Kazakh authorities in November 2020 on the record of endangered species threatened with extinction.

The Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland physique of water, is bounded by 5 nations: Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan.

The seal inhabitants of the Caspian Sea has for many years suffered from over-hunting and the consequences of commercial air pollution.

Consultants say there are actually about 68,000 Caspian seals, down from multiple million within the early twentieth century.