Thank you Cassandra anmd the Team at GAC for supporting us agai this year. They have kindly supported us for 4 years in a row now, which is amazing. Thank you and Happy New Year to them and everyone who has supported out work throughout this year.
Thanks to Phil and Anne at Aquatonics for their kind donation for Christmas. We did some work with them earlier this year and their client to ensure the seahorses were protected during a building project at Millbay and we are pleased to say it worked. Thanks to everyone involved for their concern and care in this delicate project.
Have a great New Year to all at Aquatonics and their clients
Every so often something very beautiful and mystical comes across our desk and one of them is part of the Staffordshire Hoard, an amazing collection of Saxon gold and precious items from 1400 years ago.
Please have a look at the link below for the full story but what tweaked our interest here at the trust was the ‘Seahorse’ objects. Stylised pieces that look like a seahorse with some very typical seahorse features such as the dorsal fin on the back and the slight upturn to th…e end of the snout and the ridges on the body. At the moment they are being considered to be stylised land horses but looking very closely at them there are so many features that would make them seahorses and with seahorses found around our coastline and the Saxons taking their inspiration from nature, it is possible the artist used a real seahorse to illustrate their art.
What do you think?
The pictures have been used with full permission from the Birmingham Museum and are subject to their copyright ©Birmingham Museums Trust
Check out the link to the full hoard at
http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/e…/see-it-in-birmingham
Dear all, we now have the e-mail address for the illegal trade in seahorses and a statement from Kim our coordinator who has offered to take on this voluntary role of looking into and campaigning against the curio trade on E-bay and other sites on our behalf. I would like to say a massive thank you to Kim for doing this.
Kim says:-
As you will have seen in the last newsletter, we are very concerned by the number of real sea horse sales that are taking place illegally on eBay and other sites. These are usually in the form of keyrings, paperweights and even jewelry.
I decided I wanted to do something about this terrible trade, and I am now working in partnership with E-bay (who have been very helpful) and other agencies to bring an end to these illegal sales.
If you spot any real sea horse items for sale from any source (not just eBay) please email me at illegaltrade@localhost , this will let me be able to monitor the number of such items so I can report them to our interested partners.
Remember that it’s illegal to buy or sell seahorses, dead or alive, or parts thereof anywhere in Europe and it is illegal to sell out of or import into America seahorses, dead or alive, or parts thereof.
Every seahorse that is stopped from being sold helps to protect the seahorses worldwide so please help us to help them. We would like to get this ban imposed worldwide and it is only with public opinion that this will happen, thank you. Kim.
Dear all, we had a good piece in the Western Morning News, which can be found online at http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Seahorses-disappear-Studland-Bay/story-23087722-detail/story.html
It shows the urgent need for Studland Bay to be protected
Please find the report for the expedition we helped to organise in Cambodia with Ben and Paul
http://issuu.com/fxpeditionskernow/docs/expedition_samloem_2013_report2/1
We would like to thank Valerie Thomas for kindly donating £250 towards the work of the trust in memory of her husband Vivian and below is the lovely statement she makes about Vivian.
In memory of Vivian Lansfield, a man who loved to be close to nature. With love from Valerie & our daughter Kerry xx
We have helped out on a documentary about the beautiful Dorset coastline. its people and species which is now showing at the link below. In it, we are shown working with our colleagues at Weymouth Sealife Centre who are researching the captive breeding of seahorses. We hope you enjoy it.
http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/mare_tv/Dorset,sendung280548.html
We have finally joined the world of Twitter and have set up the Seahorse Twitter page, please find us on @seahorsecharity or look for The Seahorse Trust. Early days but we will get the hang of it, so please bear with us.
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