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  • For example, the nerpa is the world's only freshwater seal, and it lives only in Lake Baikal.

    The "Jewel of Siberia" 2009

  • Seen by some as a dependable indicator of Baikal's health - the "canary in the mine," so to speak - is a charming little mammal called the nerpa, the world's only freshwater seal.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • Seen by some as a dependable indicator of Baikal’s health — the “canary in the mine,” so to speak — is a charming little mammal called the nerpa, the world’s only freshwater seal.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • The pollution killed plants, crabs and fish and threatened the world's only freshwater seal, the earless nerpa.

    The Recession’s Green Lining 2009

  • The most noteworthy aquatic species is the unique nerpa, the freshwater Baikal seal Phoca sibirica.

    Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation 2008

  • Cut off from the sea, the nerpa adapted and now thrive in the freshwater environment, threatened by no predator except man.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • As viruses often do, it ran its course and the nerpa population recovered.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • Vazhenkov said there had been a "huge die-off" of Baikal's indigenous seal or nerpa population

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Luke Hardin 2010

  • Cut off from the sea, the nerpa adapted and now thrive in the freshwater environment, threatened by no predator except man.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • As viruses often do, it ran its course and the nerpa population recovered.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

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