December 2013

Once again our friends at GAC Logistics have kindly sent a donation towards our work here at the trust. Instead of sending out bottles of wines to their customers, they have made a donation to the trust on behalf of all of them and GAC.  We are so grateful to the team at GAC and would like thank them so much for their amazing support, not just this Christmas but for the things they have done for us throughout the year.

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Thank you to everyone who supports the trust, we aim to make a big difference to the environment and to preserve seahorses, our oceans and the environment for generations to come.

Happy Christmas and have a fantastic New Year

Best wishes from all at The Seahorse Trust

Dear all, I think this card from Lila sums it all up, inside it says Merry Christmas and a Seahorse Saving New Year.

Thank you Lila and the same to you and your family and all our amazing supporters.

Every year we grow from strength to strength and thank you so much for all your hard work.

Happy Christmas and have a brilliant New Year

Seahorses around the world are little understood but Robbie and his team from Manly Sealife Centre in Sydney Harbour have launched a seahorse survey in partnership with the trust to try and find out more about them. Robbie and the team have done a couple of dives now and found some Hippocampus whitei and they know there are several other species in the area. Diving in the area is interesting as they have to dive around the shark nets, so they keep one eye out for seahorses and one for sharks makes for a very interesting dive !!! We hope to expand the seahorse surveys out to all Sealife Centres around the world in 2014, so that we can build a world knowledge on the species, its behaviour and distribution.

The only way forward in understanding about seahorses is to form partnerships around the world and our ongoing partnership with the Sea Life Group is vital to our research and knowledge but Sealife and its amazing staff and visitors bring more to this as well. We have been nominated for the second year running as the Seahorse charity that sealife is raising funds for in Europe. The collection vortexes in each of the European Sealife Centres have been dedicated to the trust, so every penny put into these vortexes comes to the trust to help fund our work. I would like to publically thank the Sealife group and their visitors for their amazing support, without them we could not do so much. So next time your in a sealife Centre please drop a penny into their vortexes and support the work we are all doing together.

Here at the trust we are so lucky to have the support of so many people and organisations, not only supporting our goals and research work but also in raising funds for us. The National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth is one such organisation who have kindly raised almost £1,000 for our work from their guests this year and we would like to thank them for all their hard work.
http://www.national-aquarium.co.uk/