Kealan Doyle (Save Our Seahorses) and Neil Garrick Maidment (The Seahorse Trust) have shared a passion and admiration for seahorses for many years and through this passion they have become good friends.It is through this friendship that they became colleagues and formed a partnership between The Seahorse Trust and Save Our Seahorses with the aim of sharing research and ideas, in doing so, enhancing their ability to make a real difference. It was from this partnership that The Seahorse Alliance was formed.
The Seahorse Alliance is a partnership between conservation and environmental groups around the world with the same common goals and aspirations to save seahorses from extinction. It is by combining their efforts that a real, long lasting and effective difference can be made on a world wide scale.
The Seahorse Alliance consists of:
- The Seahorse Trust
- Save Our Seahorses
- Marine Conservation Cambodia
- Save Our Seahorses Malaysia
- Sealife
- Cambodian Fisheries Department
- Seahorse Indonesia
- Malta Seahorse Conservation Project
- And many individuals who have a passion for seahorses and the natural world
By each organization utilising their skills and abilities towards the common goal, the Seahorse Alliance plans to make a difference by:
- Giving advice to governments and individuals alike
- Assisting with captive breeding projects on a subsistence and higher level
- Encourage the creation of new breeding programs and assisting with local fishing communities in the creation of the programs
- Advise marine researchers around the world
- Study and research of seahorses in the wild
- Aim to restore, conserve and protect habitats
- And by speaking with one, equal, voice for seahorses and the natural world around the globe