Help us Save Our Seahorses

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Days…. Until seahorses become extinct

About Us

Save Our Seahorses is a non profit organisation founded to help save seahorses from extinction. It is the Irish branch of The International Seahorse Trust and our experienced staff brings hands on, practical and effective methods to conservation. SOS focuses on protecting environments through habitat restoration, rewilding the sea and ecomoorings. We also focus on the curio and medicinal trades through education and promoting captive bred alternatives to wild seahorses.

Our main focus

Conservation through cultivation

To initiate captive breeding projects in areas where seahorses are actively fished and thus help alleviate pressures on wild populations.

Stop fishing pregnant males

Our research shows up to 100% of males fished are pregnant – if simply held for several days in existing cages and allowed to give birth, this would have a significant positive effect on the wild population.

Education

To create awareness of the plight of the Seahorse by encouraging alternatives to the use of seahorses in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

Marine reserves

To campaign for the set-up of marine reserves to help preserve localised breeding populations of seahorses which can repopulate surrounding areas.

Habitat Protection

Seahorse habitat is being wiped out globally due to coastal development, pollution and destructive fishing. The preservation of these areas are not just crucial to maintaining seahorse populations globally but for the conservation of marine ecosystems in general.

Available on Netflix Europe

Seahorse Man

2015 | PG | 52m | Nature & Ecology Documentaries
As seahorse numbers steadily dwindle, a marine biologist starts a breeding program to try to prevent the remarkable species from going extinct.
Starring: John Hurt

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