[Animals] 700 endangered seals found dead off Russia's Caspian coast

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Endangered seals appear on the coast of the Caspian Sea
(CNN) -- About 700 endangered seals have been found dead on Russia's Caspian coast in the North Caucasus, local officials said Sunday.

Caspian seals, the only mammals found in the Caspian Sea, have been classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list since 2008.

“The number of discovered animals may increase. The cause of death has not yet been determined," the press service of the region's fisheries agency said, according to Russian state media TASS.

The seals washed up off the coast of the Russian republic of Dagestan, along the Caspian Sea, the world's largest landlocked body of water.

TASS said that "investigators had already begun work to identify the cause of death of mammals."

 

 

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The news comes after more than 140 Caspian seals were found dead on Kazakh beaches in the Caspian Sea earlier this year, according to KASPIKA, an agency for the conservation of Caspian seals.

According to the IUCN, the Caspian seal po[CENSORED]tion has suffered from overhunting, habitat degradation and climate change.

The Caspian Sea is bordered by five countries: Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan.

 

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