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schema:articleBody	At least 170 endangered seals washed up dead over the course of several days on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Russia's republic of Dagestan, researchers told AFP on Thursday. "These are the dead animals that we saw, photographed and whose GPS coordinates we noted," said Viktor Nikiforov of the Moscow Marine Mammals research centre. Images shared with AFP showed several seal carcasses washed up on the beach. The deaths may have been caused by "industrial pollution, fishing or poaching when seals get caught in the nets," Nikiforov said. "Maybe this is the consequence of climate change or several causes at the same time," he added. He said that it would take a year of "serious surveillance" to precisely identify the cause of the disaster. According to the researchers, the seals were found some 100 kilometres south of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, and others washed up 50 kilometres north of the city. Contacted by AFP, the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency in the North Caucasus said it had dispatched inspectors to carry out a new count. The Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes in Russia, said it was looking into the incident. The Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland body of water, is bounded by five countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan. The seal population of the Caspian Sea has for decades suffered from over-hunting and the effects of industrial pollution. Experts say there are now about 70,000 Caspian seals, down from more than one million in the early 20th century. Pollution from the extraction of oil and gas there, along with declining water levels due to climate change, pose a threat to many species and put the future of the sea itself at risk. The UN Environment Programme has warned that the Caspian "suffers from an enormous burden of pollution". In December 2020, authorities reported the death of nearly 300 endangered seals on Dagestan's Caspian shore. rco-acl/jz
schema:headline	Some 170 endangered seals found dead on Russia's Caspian coast
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