After Years of Research on Cambodia’s Seahorses we have finally been shown on the National Geographic Website, With Amick And Delphine writing an amazing story showing our progression to a leading project in current Seahorse Research.
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Category: Marine Conservation Cambodia in The News
Below are a few small articles linking to recent National and International news articles on MCC
You can also visit our main links section and visit all our past news articles directly.
We had the pleasure of hosting Lindsay Aylesworth, a researcher with Project Seahorse, You can read Lindsay’s Blog about her trip and the collaboration we have developed to help research and protect Cambodia’s Seahorses here.
So after our last year of work bringing attention to the illegal fishing activities destroying Kep’s Ocean, Our daily and nightly patrols and our marine research are paying off.
After numerous meetings with Kep Provincial Government, the creation of an official Marine Protected area is looking more and more positive, we still have a long way to go but the foundations are being built.
With the recent article on illegal fishing destroying Kep’s Ocean in the Cambodian Daily which also mentions the work we are doing helping to highlight the struggles we face here in Kep. We believe that the end is in sight.
MCC’s Founder has just been featured in the UK Telegraph, battling to save Cambodia’s coastline.
You can find out more about Paul and all the rest of our Team by coming to join us, now is the time of real change, our work makes a daily difference, and the only thing that keeps that happening is you.
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Our Seahorse Tagging Project was recently highlighted in the Phnom Phen Post.
“Outtake from the article”
Marine biologists off the coast of Kep are giving seahorses fluorescent “tattoos” in hopes of tracking their numbers and curbing illegal fishing.
Of the 48 species of seahorses around the globe, seven have been spotted in Cambodian waters, but little is known about the animal’s local demographics.
“There are lots of questions that we’re still trying to find the answers on with seahorses,” explained Lindsay Aylesworth, 31, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia and lead researcher behind the project.