Persian Wildlife - News: The Caspian Seal ( Pusa caspica ) has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered

September 10 2010 07:33:02

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The Caspian Seal ( Pusa caspica ) has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered

The Caspian Seal ( Pusa caspica ) has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered. It occurs throughout the Caspian Sea, using the winter ice sheets as a surface on which to give birth and nurse pups. Its population has declined by 90 percent over the last 100 years due to unsustainable levels of commercial hunting, habitat degradation and pollution; it is still decreasing. Since 2005 the number of pups born has plummeted by a catastrophic 60 percent to just 6,000-7,000. A low survival rate among pups has led researchers to fear there are barely enough breeding females to keep the population viable. Photo © Simon Goodman (University of Leeds/Caspian International Seal Survey).

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