Aselle Tasmagambetova, founder of CAIER, proposes to develop a targeted transnational policy
At the tip of February, the Center for Research and Rehabilitation of the Caspian Seal, led by its founder Aselle Tasmagambatova, and the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomic Research organized one of many largest worldwide expeditions within the Caspian Sea.
The researchers additionally obtained help from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, a Tasmagambetova Institute associate since 2022.
Scientists from the United States, Norway, Great Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan launched into an expedition to amass as a lot data as attainable in regards to the Caspian seal, an endangered species of mammal listed within the Red Book.
These animals are gravely threatened by air pollution, unlawful looking, world warming, and illness.
“Only on the ice do Caspian seals breed, give birth, nurture, and train their young. Thus, global warming, in conjunction with the already-documented decline in water levels, will have a severe impact on seals’ most important habitat” – CAIER founder Aselle Tasmagambetova explains the environmentalists’ issues. With assistance from particular sensors supplied by Saudi Arabian collaborators for the expedition, the scientists hope to be taught essential details about how seals adapt to temperature fluctuations. “This is of the utmost importance. We estimate that oil, industrial and heavy metals, agricultural pesticides, radioactive waste, sewage, and household refuse have poisoned the habitat of seals, and that up to 70 percent of the females of this species are unable to reproduce at this time. According to Tasmagambetova, the creatures may need to find new homes in the future. According to the ecologist, approximately 70 seals have been cured since the seal rehabilitation center in Aktau, Kazakhstan opened two years ago. Tasmagambetova adds, “roughly half of them had been captured by unlawful networks, so that is one other critical subject that have to be addressed.”
Dr. Tommy Nyman, a researcher from the NIBIO Svanhovd Molecular Center who additionally participated within the expedition, observes that the scenario of seals within the Caspian Sea is corresponding to that of seals dwelling in Finland’s Lake Saimaa. “However, whereas the Caspian seal inhabitants is declining, the Saimaa seal inhabitants is slowly rising, from 150 people within the Eighties to roughly 400 people at present. Norwegian environmentalist Tasmagambetova hypothesizes that that is the results of new restrictions on fishing nets.
As a consequence of the expedition, scientists must analyze a considerable amount of information collected concerning the Caspian Sea mammals’ habitat and their susceptibility to ailments and parasites. However, it’s already evident that each one Caspian area nations should attain mutual agreements to ensure that everybody to work to protect the Caspian Sea’s surroundings and marine life.
Specifically, the Center for Research and Rehabilitation of the Caspian Seal is ready to imagine a coordinating position within the rescue of endangered animals.
Aselel Tasmagambetova defined the aim of such expeditions: “All analyses, studies, and collected data can be used to develop a targeted transnational policy within the framework of the Tehran Convention to reverse the current decline in the seal population.”
