If you stubbornly engage in something, then the results will certainly be. Not in our country, in Aktau (this is the Republic of Kazakhstan), Caspian Seal Research and Rehabilitation Center has been opened. It is the first in the North Caspian. The project of the Central Asia Institute for Ecological Researches (CAIER) was supported by Saby Charitable Foundation. The Center’s specialists will deal with the conservation of the Caspian seal population and will solve ecological problems of the Caspian Sea.

'We have already talked with fishermen in the Caspian. If they find a seal, weakened or injured, they can immediately call our call center, which will work around the clock every day. We have a specially equipped car, and we will be able to leave for a suffered animal. If a seal needs medical treatment, we will pick it up to our center. Then we will take care of this animal till its complete recovery, feed and treat it, and then will release it back to the wild,' said Adylkhan Tovasarov, the General Director of CAIER, 'People do not always understand what to do in such cases, and animals are frightened, stressed. Therefore, we plan to conduct seminars for people.'

Everybody, who finds s a seal on the Kazakhstan Caspian coast, can contact the call center, dialing +7 (775) 10 111 2. The address of Caspian Seal Research and Rehabilitation Center: the Republic of Kazakhstan, Aktau, the 4th District, bld. 82/2.

Thank you so much, dear colleagues!

Nataliya Shumeyko,
the Head of Kaspika Caspian Seals Conservation Agency
http://kaspika.org/en/

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Photo by Saken Dildakhmet, the Press Secretary of the Committee on Forestry and Animals of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.