International Movement to Save the Caspian Sea Outlines Its Three Goals for the Future

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Mar. 5 – Fourteen months after activists launched the International Movement to Save the Caspian Sea (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/save-caspian-sea-organization-holds.html), participants in the group from various countries have come together to outline their goals.

            Their goals, members of the group say, are to counter the three most serious problems the Caspian faces: falling water levels in the Caspian, the absence of transparency in deals between littoral states and oil companies about drilling, and the increasing pollution of that inland sea (ulysmedia.kz/analitika/69201-more-problem-kakie-shagi-delaet-save-the-caspian-sea-chtoby-spasti-kaspii/).

            The movement, created by a Kazakhstan ecologist, is modeled on the anti-nuclear Nevada-Semipalatinsk group and on various groups that have tried, without much success, to save the Aral Sea in Central Asia and is claiming success in attracting international attention to the fate of a body of water so large its disappearance strikes many as an impossibility.

            Its most significant action so far was the holding of a Save the Caspian Week in August 2025 which released a program of “ten steps for the saving of the Caspian Sea.” The new three point program suggests that the movement is seeking to expand its influence by focusing on what it sees as the most critical issues so far.