Advancing marine conservation
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. Despite international trade (CITES) …
I’m on a plane again – this time heading home. I’m excited to get there – my cousin is getting married this weekend and so there’s lots to celebrate. But truthfully I’ve already been celebrating! Just as my cousins will soon embark on a new chapter in their lives, so have seahorses embarked on a …
I still vividly remember finding out that all seahorses had been listed on CITES* Appendix II. It was November 2002 and I was in Chicago, sitting in the lobby of the Shedd Aquarium (a long time Project Seahorse partner). My phone rang. It was Amanda Vincent, Project Seahorse director, calling me from Chile to tell …
Lazarus, S. (Jun 7, 2019). Used as a natural Viagra in Chinese medicine, seahorse numbers are declining. CNN International. (Article) https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/06/asia/seahorse-trade-chinese-medicine-intl/index.html … Read more
Plourde, F. (Mar 17, 2019) Protection des hippocampes: des mesures inefficaces menant à la contrebande. Radio Canada. (Article) https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1158725/hippocampes-contrebande-convention-cites-protection-extinction-hongkong … Read more
Dasgupta, S. (Mar 8, 2019) Seahorse trade continues despite export bans, study finds. Mongabay Series: Oceans. (Article) https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/seahorse-trade-continues-despite-export-bans-study-finds/
National legislation as well as bans under the international CITES agreement not slowing the trade in seahorse products Story originally posted by UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Many countries are engaged in a vast illegal and unrecorded international trade in seahorses, one that circumvents global regulations, according to a new UBC study that …
McDermott, A. (Aug 23, 2018) Millions of seahorses wind up dead on the black market for this senseless reason. Oceana. (Article) https://oceana.org/blog/millions-seahorses-wind-dead-black-market-senseless-reason/… Read more
By Lily Stanton and Do Huu Hoang (Part three of a three part series) Almost 20 years after first documenting the extent of seahorse trade in Viet Nam, we returned to see what, if anything, has changed. You may remember that exports of Hippocampus kuda were suspended in 2013 by the Convention on International Trade …
By Lily Stanton and Do Huu Hoang (Part two of a three part series, a photo essay) After discovering that more than 2 million seahorses were landed annually as bycatch by the many trawl boats operating in Vietnamese waters in the late 1990s, we (Project Seahorse) returned to uncover what, if anything, has changed in …
