Advancing marine conservation
2025 is here, and we need your help more than ever! Join us as a citizen scientist: 📸 Report your seahorse sightings at iseahorse.org to contribute to vital research. Every sighting brings us closer to understanding these magical animals and safeguarding the oceans they call home. Let’s make 2025 a year of action and …
Happy Holidays! As we welcome 2025, we wish you a season filled with warmth, joy, and meaningful connections. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness, and inspiration to protect our ocean’s iconic fishes. Let’s keep making waves for seahorses and their seas together! #SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse
Project Seahorse sends out the occasional newsletter. Link to the November 2024 newsletter.… Read more
This Halloween we are bringing “ghost pipefishes” out of the shadows! With their eerie looks, sneaky camouflage tricks and mysterious names, there’s still so much we don’t know about them. Our research biologist, Syd Ascione found big gaps in what we know about their population, homes and potential threats. And, we need your help to …
The global expert group on seahorse, pipefish and seadragon conservations, hosted by Project Seahorse, is inviting the world to help shed light on the mysterious ghost pipefishes. With Halloween here, it’s a spooktacular time to spotlight these species. Their eerie appearances, sneaky camouflage tricks, and mysterious names – like harlequin ghost pipefish and armoured ghost pipefish—add to their charm. Beyond that, almost everything about their life-history, populations, and threats remains a mystery.… Read more
We are excited to share that our research paper, “Advances in Life-History Knowledge for 35 Seahorse Species from Community Science,” has reached an exciting milestone—surpassing 1,000 views and earning 14 media mentions. To top it off, the paper was even picked up by actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio. In case you missed it, check it …
Are you at #IMCC7? Catch Dr. Miguel Correia, our syngnathid biologist and research associate, as he shares key highlights from the IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish & Seadragon Specialist Group at the “Connecting the Dots: Expanding Our Reach & Impact through IUCN SSC Specialist Groups” panel event hosted by IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee. #SPSSG #SavingIconicFishes
We are excited to introduce a new tool from our latest paper, supporting the sustainable international trade of wildlife: the 5-Question approach. The approach focuses on helping national governments meet their obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).… Read more
Finding ‘the one’ can feel like a never-ending dance 🪩✨But hey, at least seahorses have it figured out! #DidYouKnow know that their courtship ritual involves hours of ‘dancing’ before they commit? Maybe it’s time we take a page from their book—patience and teamwork for the win! #FridayFunFact #SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse 📸 Amir Abramovich/Guylian Seahorses of the …
We are happy to welcome Ruth Arnold to our team. Ruth holds an Masters in Biology from the University of Oxford (UK) and is this year’s Oxford-Canada Rhodes Scholar. At Project Seahorse, she will be focusing on seahorse biology and ecology.… Read more
