Two hundred dead seals found at Kazakhstan coast of Caspian Sea

Astana. May 14. Kazakhstan Today - 218 hundred dead seals have been found at Kazakhstan coast of the Caspian Sea, the agency reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Emergency of Kazakhstan.

According to the press service, dead animals have been found in Bautino in 25 kilometers from Shevchenko city.

"All animals died in winter. All the necessary measures are being undertaken to establish the reasons of seals' death," the press service informed.

As informed earlier, high death toll of seals in the Caspian Sea occurs now even more frequently. 8 cases were registered in the second half of the last century, but there have been already at least three cases in the first decade of this century. In 2000 about 30 thousand Caspian seals died at the Kazakhstan coast. There have been found more than 10 thousand dead seals. Many dead animals have been washed away by winds from the northern water area of the Caspian Sea to the southern. Chronic toxicosis was named as the reason of death: the products of decomposition of crude oil, furnace and black sea oil, and pesticides were found in the animals that led to substantial lowering of immunity in seals and increase of susceptibility to infectious diseases.

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