seahorses

Seahorses! Curly-tailed wonders of the sea

Listen to our member Dr. Heather Koldewey (Senior Technical Advisor at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), UK and co-Founder of Project Seahorse) share what it’s like to swim with seahorses on this fun podcast by Brains On: https://www.brainson.org/episode/2024/07/30/seahorses-curlytailed-wonders-of-the-sea

Hippocampus guttulatus.. Photo by Magda Nenciu / Guylian Seahorses of the World

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From poaching to conservation - searching for seahorses in Mozambique

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This is the inspiring story of how a large haul of dried seahorses poached from the waters of a tiny town in Mozambique led to seahorse conservation and research! It is also the story of how I came to meet some of the amazing syngnathid species we have along the African coast.

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The "amazing race" to uncover seahorse trade and exploitation in the Philippines

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We recently set out on an amazing race, criss-crossing the Philippines by plane, boat, bus and car in less than 3 months, to uncover seahorse trade and exploitation. We discovered that 1.7+ million seahorses are caught per year in the Philippines, compared to over 4 million per year 20 years ago.