What seemed like a simple question led to a new research project... with big results.

You might want to browse our new paper on coral damage and resilience...

📣 Call for videos and photos 📣 We urgently need visual resources to help advance our conservation mission. We would be so grateful for your 🎥videos and 📸photos, for non-commercial use.
More details here: https://projectseahorse.org/call-for-videos-and-photos/
🌊 Please help us spread the word!

Meet Santa of the sea! - Project Seahorse Hippocampus denise, nicknamed “Hippocampus santa” by the diving community in Indonesia because of its festive red and white colours. This seahorse Santa doesn’t bring gifts, but spotting one is a gift...

Hippocampus denise, nicknamed “Hippocampus santa”🎄🎅 by the diving community in Indonesia. This seahorse doesn’t bring gifts, but spotting one is a gift in itself. If you spot one, don't forget to share your sightings with #iSeahorse on #iNaturalist.
🔗 Learn more: projectseahorse.org/meet-santa-o...

🌊 Whether you paint 🎨, dance 💃, doodle ✏️, weave 🧵, write ✍️, design jewellery 💎, compose music 🎶, build Legos 🧩, cut potato prints 🥔or create in ways we haven’t even imagined, this is your invitation to join a global arts movement Inspired by #IconicFishes
Take part 👉 www.iconicfishes.art/participate

How cool are these stickers inspired by #IconicFishes! We’re so grateful for artists like divermonart.com who help spark wonder & awe for these magical species!

Feeling inspired? 🎨Start here 👉 www.iconicfishes.art/participate

💪🌊Together, let's give these fishes the spotlight they deserve! 🌊💪

How can you contribute to #iconicfishes with your creativity... or by spotting others' arts?

Diving into this video is a very special experience. Find the 9 seahorses! Thanks so much for sharing, Olivier.

This art is spectacular, on so many layers. Dive deep into the ambassador and see her messages.

So proud of what @iucnseahorse.bsky.social & @projectseahorse.bsky.social contribute to regulating international trade in seahorses for sustainability and legality.

Dr. Sarah Foster (@sarahjfoster.bsky.social), our Focal Point for Global Fisheries and Trade, is championing #seahorses at #CITESCoP20. If you see her around, do say hello, and be sure to join our side event "Global Action for Seahorses" on 29 Nov!

Learn more 👉 www.iucn-seahorse.org/cites

Please spread the news to colleagues at #CITESCoP20

This is so special. Making art about bottom trawling and #IconicFishes. Watch and enjoy.

🌊This #WorldFisheriesDay, we’re highlighting three ways we are reconciling fisheries with marine conservation, at all scales.

To learn more, visit www.projectseahorse.org

#ProjectSeahorse #SustainableFisheries #EndBottomTrawling #AdvancingMarineConservation #SavingSeahorses

Mongabay launches dedicated Oceans Desk to expand global reporting on marine ecosystems With increasing pressures from overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change, the health of the world’s oceans is imperiled. In response, Mongabay has launched a dedicated Oceans…

Mongabay launches dedicated Oceans Desk to expand global reporting on marine ecosystems news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mong... 🧪🦑🌎

Tell us about where you have seen our #IconicFishes (seahorses. pipefishes, pipehorses, seadragons, cornetfishes, trumpetfishes, bellowsfishes and ghost pipefishes) in artistic form. And have a go at capturing their magic in in your own making and creating!

Myself, I think they are more gorgeous than scary. We have just completed a review of their biology... and are awaiting a verdict from the journal. #IconicFishes

Illegal Wildlife Trade

Air Canada says it "is the first airline in North America to obtain IATA’s Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) certification", making 11 key commitments to help disrupt the trafficking of wildlife. Read more here.

www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/ho...

Fisheries Advisories Each year we produce Commercial Fisheries Advisories in line with the latest UK and EU law. These provide rapid access to the current legislative status of sharks, skates and rays in UK, EU, and inter...

Want to know the shark and ray fisheries regulations in Europe, see handy link from the @sharktrust #Elasmo25

www.sharktrust.org/Pages/Catego...

Three Indigenous-led marine refuges established in waters off B.C.'s North Coast All three sites have been established under an initiative meant to increase Indigenous-led marine conservation efforts on the West Coast, while also advancing reconciliation.

First Nations have announced three new marine refuges along British Columbia's North Coast, protecting sensitive habitat for salmon, herring, seabirds, and seals. 🌊

🔗 Read more: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/n...

Help @projectseahorse.bsky.social and @iucnseahorse.bsky.social get the world passionately excited about our #iconicfishes. Create and make... and tell us about others who create and make.

Please help excite people about our #IconicFishes.

‼️REMINDER: 2027 Indianapolis Prize Award Entries

🏆 2027 Indy Prize Nominations
🌟 2027 Emerging Conservationists

📅Both close: Feb. 27, 20267
🔗Nominate or apply: bit.ly/46Sajxr

Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proud to be part of an amazing group of dedicated conservationists, working to save seahorses and their seas. See what we got up to in 2024...

Hey, some #iconicfishes from Malaysia. Where have you spotted our wondrous fishes? www.iconicfishes.art

Spotted more of our #IconicFishes today. Would love to see some handknitted clothing with #seahorses! Read all about our arts movement for conservation... and consider what you might contribute, as a crafter, artist, musician, dancer, baker or
maker! www.iconicfishes.art.

In a Letter to the Editor to Nature... four marine leaders call for an end to bottom trawling in MPAs

tinyurl.com/3pnx952x

Drawing of three bright yellow trumpetfish.

Sharing #trumpetfish art inspired by #IconicFishes. This super cute Pacific trumpetfish was illustrated by Yuri Katayama. Feeling inspired, too? 🎨 Visit www.iconicfishes.art

💙💪 Together, let’s give these fishes the spotlight they deserve. 💪💙

#OceanArt #ArtforNature #ConservationArt

Passing through the shop
@beatymuseum.bsky.social
and spotted one of our #IconicFishes on a tea cloth/dish towel. Hooray for the wondrous seadragons. @iconicfishes.bsky.social Visit www.iconicfishes.art