Project Seahorse Banca, Danajon Bank, Bohol, Philippines. Photo by Michael Ready / iLCP
Partner with Project Seahorse
Project Seahorse seeks allies, partners and donors for our projects and our program. We are an award-winning team that achieves a huge amount, using innovation and strategy. As ever, we work simultaneously with seahorses and with the broad issues that affect their conservation, constantly marrying research and action into effective change.
We have projects ready to go as soon as resources allow. Your engagement and contributions could make all the difference in helping us meet our four overarching program goals. We would be delighted to explore ideas with you. See below for specific partnership opportunities.
Our current priorities
1. Securing global agreements and directives for seahorse conservation
Help us urge the world in keeping its promise to protect seahorses
Without Project Seahorse championing seahorses at CITES – the global treaty that governs wildlife trade – no one would be leading the way. Our science, expertise, and relentless advocacy have already changed international policy – and with your support, we can make sure governments deliver on their commitments.
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2. Exposing illegal seahorse trade to save seahorses
Help us rein in rampant illegal trade in seahorses and move it toward sustainability.
Seahorses are disappearing into illegal and unregulated wildlife trade at alarming rates. Unless someone continues to track and expose this trade, governments will be left in the dark, and seahorses will vanish. Project Seahorse is that someone. With your support, we can shine a light on seahorse trade – and give countries the knowledge and tools to act on the problems we find.
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3. Powering Project Seahorse’s voice
Support our communications efforts that turn science into action, policy into protection, and stories into impact.
At Project Seahorse, we know that even the most powerful science won’t change the world unless it’s seen, heard, and felt. However, the single biggest challenge in marine conservation is getting people to care about the ocean enough to take action. With your support, we can give our mission the voice it needs.
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4. Acting on global agreements to secure change at the national level
Support the only team empowering the world to turn policy into conservation actions for seahorses and their seas.
Protecting seahorses requires action by each and every country these magical fishes call home. Thanks to the pioneering work of Project Seahorse, all seahorse range states have promised to ensure their fisheries and trade are sustainable and legal. But seahorses don’t live in meeting rooms – they live in reefs, seagrass beds, bays and estuaries. Serious, practical, functional commitment by government is needed to move from agreement to action. That’s where Project Seahorse is vital: we specialize in taking global declarations and making them come alive at the national level – protecting habitats, regulating harmful fishing, and stopping illegal trade where it counts.
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5. Synergies and scaling up for seahorse conservation across Southeast Asia
Help us make Southeast Asia the world’s model for seahorse conservation.
Project Seahorse is poised to boost national efforts into a powerful regional movement with a big future. Southeast Asia is home to more seahorse species than anywhere else — and sadly, it’s where they face the heaviest pressures from destructive fishing, illegal trade, and habitat loss. But momentum is building. Countries are beginning to act, champions are stepping forward, and neighbours are eager to follow suit.
6. Powering conservation status assessments to safeguard our species
Help us update extinction-risk assessments of our iconic fishes to guide global conservation action for the next decade
More than 320 syngnathid species we steward are in need of new conservation analyses, due every ten years. Without these critical data, conservation efforts are flying blind — unable to prioritize action, secure protections, or guide sustainable practices. That’s where your support comes in.
7. iSeahorse: supporting community scientists to make all the difference
Help us onboard a big crew of seahorse enthusiasts, leveraging the potential of divers around the world to advance marine conservation.
Our iSeahorse community science program has already uncovered a great deal of new information about seahorse biology and ecology. Building on this success, we will tap into these allies’ potential to track wild populations and advocate for their conservation.
8. Powering the global network of volunteer experts to effect change
Your support can boost a worldwide movement to protect some of the ocean’s most enchanting creatures, our iconic fishes.
Project Seahorse is calling on you to fuel a transformative conservation effort for seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons (family Syngnathidae). We are the driving force behind the IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group, leading a network of 50 experts from 25 countries, working to safeguard 320 fish species in 130 nations.
[Updated 15 Dec 2025]
[Updated 25 September 2025]