Advancing marine conservation
Wishing you a season filled with warmth, joy, and meaningful connections from all of us at Project Seahorse! 🎄🎅 May the new year bring you health, happiness, and continued inspiration to protect our ocean’s iconic fishes. Special thanks to @DeartoOurhearts for the seahorse art 💙 #HappyHolidays
Hippocampus denise, nicknamed “Hippocampus santa” by the diving community in Indonesia because of its festive red and white colours. This seahorse Santa doesn’t bring gifts, but spotting one is a gift in itself. If you see one in the wild, don’t forget to 📷 snap a photo and 💻 share your sightings with the #iSeahorse …
Help us show what’s happening beneath the surface. We urgently need visual resources to help advance our conservation mission. We would be so grateful for your videos and photos, for non-commercial use. Spread the word! We are looking for footage and images of: Bottom trawling in and above the water: trawl nets in action, seabed …
Living corals are more likely to survive and thrive when found in deeper water, within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), or in compact reef patches, according to a new study by UBC researchers published in People and Nature. Coral reefs are among the most diverse and valuable ecosystems on Earth. Living corals create shelter for hundreds …
Yes, we jumped on the trend. iSeahorse 2025 Wrapped is here! Thank you to everyone who spotted, snapped, and shared their seahorse sightings with us this year. Every “OMG, that’s a seahorse!” moment you captured and uploaded to the iSeahorse project on iNaturalist.org helps us understand where seahorses live, how their populations are doing, and …
Insights from Dr Sarah Foster, Project Seahorse Program Leader, reporting from CoP20 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. I’m honoured to be at the 20th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Conference of the Parties (CoP), representing the IUCN as the Focal Point for global fisheries and trade …
From working towards ending destructive fishing practices, to supporting subsistence fishers, to strengthening the creation and expansion of community-led Marine Protected Areas, we’re working to reconcile fisheries with conservation, at all scales. To learn more visit www.projectseahorse.org #WorldFisheriesDay #ProjectSeahorse #SustainableFisheries #EndBottomTrawling #IconicFishes
🌊 We are back with another #FunFactFriday! 🔊 Seahorses make some surprising sounds: Clicking when they’re feeding 🍴 or flirting 😍 Growling when they’re stressed 😤 A snick when they slurp up their food 😋 #SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse 📸 © Patrick Decaluwe / Guylian Seahorses of the World… Read more
🌊 We are back with another #FunFactFriday! Seahorses are slow pokes, but their tiny back fin can flutter up to 35 times per second when they need to speed up. 💨 #SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse 📸 © Marcus Wagner / Guylian Seahorses of the World… Read more
🌊 This week’s #FunFactFriday is all about how #seahorses see the world 👀 Their eyes can move independently, allowing them to look forward and backward at the same time! Keeping an eye on their surroundings 👀 #SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse 📸 © ImogenIsUnderwater / iSeahorse / iNaturalist
