Advancing marine conservation
(Cross-posted from UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries) Dr. Amanda Vincent, a professor at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, has been named as the 5th recipient of the Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare, by Balliol College at the University of Oxford. This Prize honours exceptional achievement in research focused …
Exciting news for our team and supporters! Many of our team members will be attending, presenting, and chairing at IMPAC5 Canada, the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress, a global forum that brings together ocean conservation professionals and high-level officials to inform, inspire, and act on marine protected areas. Our team is proud to be …
Panama City, November 21, 2022 The 184 Parties (member governments) to the Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) agreed to a set of time-bound actions – called Decisions – aimed at improving CITES implementation for the international trade in dried seahorses. Project Seahorse research and consultations underpinned the actions agreed by the CITES … … Read more
As persistent pioneers on export regulations for marine fishes, Project Seahorse will again be active and influential at November’s global meeting of the 183 countries that are members of CITES (The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). We have long served as the technical advisors to CITES on all …
We are delighted to share our Annual Report for 2021. It has been another wild year and the extraordinary times continue to unfurl. So, too, do our efforts and achievements in conserving seahorses and their seas.
Read the report here… Read more
UBC Graduate School (2022, May 19) Meet our students: Roshni Mangar. UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/mangar-roshni… Read more
Our co-founder (& National Geographic Explorer) Dr. Heather Koldewey talks about how seahorses are a fish but also so un-fish-like. Watch this lovely video and be inspired. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-seahorses-are-a-fish-but-also-so-un-fish-like… Read more
We’re thrilled to report on what may well be the first quantitative analysis of how CITES[1] has influenced the international trade in marine fishes.… Read more
Two handsome Lined (Northern) seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) were recorded far from their usual home. One in eastern Nova Scotia, Canada in the western Atlantic Ocean while the other was found dead on a pile of seaweed in eastern Nova Scotia in the Bay of Fundy. So what, you may ask?… Read more
This elegant Bigbelly seahorse has the distinctive large brood pouch which gives this species its “big belly”.… Read more
