Looking into the Caspian Sea

 

 

The reasons why sturgeons are heading into their extinction are clear and well known. Today it’s a common sense, that due to overfishing and poaching, these fossils became hunted in a perverse way. But even more than these direct hostile actions against the sturgeons, the indirect collateral damages due to the expansion of ‘civilization’ delivers the killing stroke for these 250Mio years old creatures. The cities drainage pipes destroy spawning grounds and the hidroelectric power plants and dams block the sturgeons gateway to evolution (spawning upstream). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The waste, polluting the Caspian Sea include increasingly many high toxic metals, such as Arsenic (mostly Iranian and Azerbaijan coastal region), Mercury (region near Baku) and Copper (Iranian and Azerbaijan coastal region). See more on the image below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone who finds interest in getting a closer look into the Caspian Sea, I recommend the website from the Caspian Environment Programm for a deeper understanding.

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