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

“Carcasses of useless seals have been discovered,” a spokesman for Kazakhstan’s ecology ministry advised AFP.

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

Autopsies will likely be carried out and Kazakh environmental consultants stated soil and water samples from the realm could 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 checklist of endangered species threatened with extinction.

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

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

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