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Dear all, we could do with your help please.

Like a lot of small charities we are being squeezed by the economic situation. In 2012 we have lots of work and projects planned such as continuing our work at Studland, a new seahorse survey for Torbay and our project with Beccy and Jonny in Malta (check out the Malta page under Research), plus many others and we can only do this with help. So if your planning any fund raising events, want to make a donation to our work and can spread the word and can get more people to join our facebook group or become members of the trust or adopt one of the seahorses then we need help.

We need more corporate sponsors so if you know of any companies that would like to make a donation to the work please let them know about us. It costs £45,000 to run the trust each year and if we had more we could do so much more (there is so much to do), so if we could find 45 businesses that could donate £1,000 per annum or 90 that could donate £500 that would cover our basic work and remember that there are tax benefits for donatng to charities as businesses or individuals.

Lets make 2012 a year to remember in seahorse terms, without all of you we could not have done so much to protect these amazing creatures so pester your local businesses and get them to donate now.

The trust is very lucky to have such a fantastic team of volunteers setting up and doing projects and fund raising events, we could not do what we do without them, so a massive thank you to one and all.

Thank you. Neil (Director)

Happy Christmas and a fantastic New Year

Have a brilliant Christmas and a very good prosperous New Year and thank you from all here at The Seahorse Trust.

Don't forget if you are planning any fund raising events or just want to make a donation to our work, drop us a line and let us know, we can help to publicise your event here on the site or on our Facebook page. The more we can raise the more we can do for these incredible amazing creatures and the fragile habitat they live in, they are in severe danger in the wild and we need to do something now, not in the future when it is too late.

There are lots of ways to make donations or to get your supporters to make a donation to us, so check out the website and see how you can make a big difference. Click on any of the links at the bottom of each page to make an electronic donation such as by Virgin Giving or The Big Give or if you are an e-bayer you can choose us as your nominated charity.

Thank you

Happy Christmas

Neil

Trust Director

Mouse Mats

Trust volunteer Beccy has created some beautiful mouse mats with a picture of one of our study seahorses from Studland on it. The picture was taken by Beccy and her partner Jonny and shows just how stunning the seahorses are around our coastline.

If you want to buy a mouse mat they are £9.99 plus £1.49p&p. Of this £4.99 goes directly to support The Seahorse Trust.
Please contact Beccy direct on rmac4521@aol.com

Don't forget Beccy and Jonny are setting up the research project in Malta and if you are interested in taking part then contact them on seahorseproject@aol.co.uk This amazing project will allow us working in partnership with a number of organisations in Malta to understand more about Seahorses in Malta and we can then compare the data we gather with the information we have gathered here in the UK as we have the same species as Malta does.

Underwater fantasy film

Not quite to do with seahorses but have a look at this website about a new series of films to do with the underwater world. It combines fantasy with the marine world and is an exciting project with its head office in Torquay, Devon.

http://www.theunderwaterrealm.com/

The Seahorse trust on radio 4's Saving Species Programme

The Seahorses Trust was on Saving Species on Radio on Tuesday the 8^th and repeated on Thursday the 10^th of November where we were talking about the tagging project at Studland Bay in Dorset and about seahorses in general. There has been fantastic feedback from the public about the article including lots of boating organisations that want to know how they can alleviate the problems that anchors are causing in the sea.

On the same programme reporter Helen Scales did a report on tagging seahorses in Tampa Bay Florida. Leslee and her team in Florida are using a different form of tagging for the diminutive Dwarf Seahorses which are only 5cm

Both sites, the one in Florida and the Studland bay face the same sort of problems with boat anchors eroding the site but in Florida they have the additional problem of farm run offs and pollution.

We are seeing the same problems occurring around the world in the shallow seagrass beds and the only way it can be sorted is by working together and putting in measures to protect the seas for the future.

The Saving Species programme can be found on the BBC I-player.

Your Seas Your Voice vote for Studland before the 31st of October

The yours Sea Your Voice vote run by the marine Conservation Society is coming to an end for England on the 31st of october, so say have your say now. Get your family and friends to vote for your favourite site and don't forget that Studland bay is one of the most important sites for Spiny Seahorses here in the Uk if not Eurpoe and without protection will be destoyed forever.

Go onto the link below and have your say

http://www.yourseasyourvoice.com/

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