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Sea Lion Population Vanishing in Russia's Far East
The Moscow Times
Jul. 09 2014 12:59
Last edited 12:59
By the end of the sea lions' reproductive season in early July, only 163 pups were born.
The Steller sea lion, whose unexplained declines in Alaska have worried scientists and conservationists in recent decades, has seen an equally mysterious population drop on Russia's extreme eastern lands this year, researchers said.
Even as their worldwide numbers dwindled, sea lions ? large playful members of the eared-seals family ? had established new reproductive rookeries on Russia's Commander Islands, the country's farthest eastern outcropping of land, the islands' Komandorsky Nature Reserve said in a statement. But this summer, the number of new pups born at the rookeries was the lowest in more than 20 years of continuous observation, the statement said...
The Moscow Times
Jul. 09 2014 12:59
Last edited 12:59
By the end of the sea lions' reproductive season in early July, only 163 pups were born.
The Steller sea lion, whose unexplained declines in Alaska have worried scientists and conservationists in recent decades, has seen an equally mysterious population drop on Russia's extreme eastern lands this year, researchers said.
Even as their worldwide numbers dwindled, sea lions ? large playful members of the eared-seals family ? had established new reproductive rookeries on Russia's Commander Islands, the country's farthest eastern outcropping of land, the islands' Komandorsky Nature Reserve said in a statement. But this summer, the number of new pups born at the rookeries was the lowest in more than 20 years of continuous observation, the statement said...