seahorses

From poaching to conservation - searching for seahorses in Mozambique

This is the inspiring story of how a large haul of dried seahorses poached from the waters of a tiny town in Mozambique led to seahorse conservation and research! It is also the story of how I came to meet some of the amazing syngnathid species we have along the African coast.

The "amazing race" to uncover seahorse trade and exploitation in the Philippines

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.