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Seahorses are powerful ambassadors for ocean health. Researchers from Project Seahorse—a marine conservation team based at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)—identified and reviewed new findings related to 35 of the 46 seahorse species found around the globe, all of them posted by citizen scientists using the team's iSeahorse program, part of the iNaturalist family. iSeahorse is a tool for seahorse science and conservation. iSeahorse harnesses the power of community scientists — anyone, anywhere in the world who sees a seahorse in the wild — to improve understanding of these animals and protect them from overfishing and other threats.
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To improve understanding of seahorses and protect them from overfishing and other threats.
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Record your wild seahorse sightings in the iSeahorse App
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Undertaking an analysis of 7,794 validated iSeahorse observations from 96 countries and across 35 seahorse species, posted from October 2013 to April 2022, researchers were impressed by the information they gained and its effect on knowledge about seahorses.
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Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean depths.

University of British Columbia
