Over a hundred dead seals have washed up on the shore of the Caspian Sea in the Tupkaragan district of the Mangystau region. According to local blogger Azamat Sarsenbayev, the incident occurred after recent storms.
As reported on his Instagram page, the blogger said that scientists have currently counted 151 dead seals. They claim that many of the dead animals had mechanical injuries on their bodies. The cause of their death has not yet been determined.
It will be recalled that in December last year, Aktau blogger Azamat Sarsenbayev sheltered two flamingo chicks in his bathtub. According to him, he found one of the weakened chicks in the snow not far from the Karazhanbas oil field. After warming the bird in his car, the blogger decided to take it home.
However, he later reported that local conservation officers were threatening him with a fine, and that he was also being threatened with criminal prosecution for keeping a Red Book animal. They were later handed over to the Almaty Zoo. Unfortunately, one of the chicks died.
Shortly before this, Azamat Sarsenbayev was blamed for the death of flamingos after filming with a drone near a flock of birds on Lake Karakol. The blogger himself stated that the birds die from colliding with power lines.
Incidentally, in the spring of this year it was reported that dead seal carcasses are periodically found on the shore of the Caspian Sea. The first reports of dead animals appeared on 29 March. At that time, employees of the fisheries inspectorate of the Mangystau region discovered 62 carcasses of dead seals during monitoring in the Tupkaragan district.
On 25 April, in the Tupkaragan district of the Mangystau region, employees of the fisheries inspectorate found 12 seal carcasses.
Later, the fisheries inspectorate of the Mangystau region reported that from 29 March to 25 April 2024, 182 carcasses of dead seals were discovered on the shore of the Caspian Sea.