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					<title>Four alleged wildlife traffickers arrested in Guinea, dried seahorses and shark fins seized</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/four-alleged-wildlife-traffickers-arrested-in-guinea-dried-seahorses-and-shark-fins-seized/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jun 2026 14:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, China, Guinea, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fishing, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Seahorses, shark finning, Sharks, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[An undercover operation by Guinean authorities in the capital Conakry caught four men in possession of more than 2,000 dried seahorses and 26 kg (57 lbs) of shark and ray fins on May 22, 2026. According to a press release, the seizure was supported by the Guinea branch of the anti-wildlife trafficking NGO Eco Activists [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An undercover operation by Guinean authorities in the capital Conakry caught four men in possession of more than 2,000 dried seahorses and 26 kg (57 lbs) of shark and ray fins on May 22, 2026. According to a press release, the seizure was supported by the Guinea branch of the anti-wildlife trafficking NGO Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement (EAGLE). EAGLE identified the arrested men as Daouda Camara, Thierno Sadou Bah, Sekou Soumah, and Abdoulaye Camara, all Guinean nationals aged between 20 and 55 years old. The NGO told Mongabay they are believed to be part of a transnational criminal network operating across West Africa. The network has been involved in smuggling wildlife for more than four decades, but none of those arrested were previously known to law enforcement authorities. Antonia Gustafsson, coordinator of EAGLE Guinée, said the alleged traffickers were trying to sell dried seahorses to Chinese nationals in the country, who would then illegally ship them to China. When authorities searched a storage facility linked to the traffickers, they found the stashed shark and ray fins. Shark and ray fins are key ingredients in shark fin soup, a delicacy in much of China and Southeast Asia. Dried seahorses are in high demand in China as they are used in traditional Chinese medicine preparations. Both products are high-value seafood and a highly lucrative trade: Prices for dried seahorses have peaked as high as $600/kg. Seized shark and ray fins, which were destined for export to China, where they&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/four-alleged-wildlife-traffickers-arrested-in-guinea-dried-seahorses-and-shark-fins-seized/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320913</doi>				</item>
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					<title>From South America to Asia, seahorses vanish into trafficking pipeline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-south-america-to-asia-seahorses-vanish-into-trafficking-pipeline/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Sep 2025 15:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ana Cristina Alvarado]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Seahorses, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[In June 2025, Ecuadorian police were summoned to the municipal bus terminal in Tulcán, in the northern province of Carchi, to investigate a suspicious package. Someone had reported a strong odor coming from a parcel that was shipped by bus from Guayaquil. Inside, police discovered its grisly contents: 2,970 dead seahorses. Authorities suspect they were [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In June 2025, Ecuadorian police were summoned to the municipal bus terminal in Tulcán, in the northern province of Carchi, to investigate a suspicious package. Someone had reported a strong odor coming from a parcel that was shipped by bus from Guayaquil. Inside, police discovered its grisly contents: 2,970 dead seahorses. Authorities suspect they were en route to Colombia and then onward to Southeast Asia, headed into the illegal wildlife trade. The box weighed about 10 kilograms (22 pounds); its value on the black market could be anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000 per kilo, Édison Fuertes, an officer with the National Police&#8217;s Environmental Protection Unit, told the Ecuadorian press. Two alleged offenders were identified: Their names appeared on the package’s shipping and receiving invoices. Because the investigation is ongoing, their names have been withheld. But the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition (MAATE, the Spanish acronym) disclosed that they were an Ecuadorian and “allegedly a person of Asian origin but of Ecuadoran nationality.” The seahorses were likely pulled from waters off the southern province of Guayas, according to MAATE, bound for Asian markets. All 47 of the world’s seahorse species are threatened, including Ecuador’s native species, the Pacific seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) that swims the Eastern Pacific from California to Chile and lives among the Galápagos Islands. These tiny fish live in seagrasses, mangroves and coral reefs, habitats that provide refuge and offer structures that seahorses can hold on to with their prehensile tails. But overfishing and commercial demand is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-south-america-to-asia-seahorses-vanish-into-trafficking-pipeline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-306839</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/island-shopping-cambodian-officials-buy-up-the-cardamoms-coast/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Dec 2022 03:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andy BallGerald FlynnVutha Srey]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Blue Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Ecological Beauty, Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Fisheries, Forest Destruction, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Illegal Fishing, Islands, Land Grabbing, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Overfishing, Protected Areas, Seagrass, Seahorses, and Tourism]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOH S’DACH, Cambodia — Bristling with coral reefs, marine life and palm trees, the islands dotting Cambodia’s western and southwestern coasts have long lured tourists and investors alike with white sandy beaches sloping into the azure waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Beyond the postcard views, limited regulation and the availability of 99-year leases for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOH S’DACH, Cambodia — Bristling with coral reefs, marine life and palm trees, the islands dotting Cambodia’s western and southwestern coasts have long lured tourists and investors alike with white sandy beaches sloping into the azure waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Beyond the postcard views, limited regulation and the availability of 99-year leases for fully foreign-owned companies have made these archipelagos a magnet for tourism magnates who, along with fugitives and government officials, have sought to cash in on the coast’s potential since the 2000s. Speculative island purchases ran rampant as Cambodia’s tourism industry grew, with islands bought up and sold on again throughout the 2010s. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, brought much of this to an abrupt halt. But as the pandemic’s grip on Cambodia loosened, Kay Samroum, chairman of the Koh Kong provincial council, announced on Feb. 4, 2022, that nine of the province’s 35 islands were slated for development. Details for the future of the province’s 237-kilometer (147-mile) coastline and its inhabitants are sparse. That same day, a deputy provincial governor, Sok Sothy, talked up the potential of the yet-to-be finished Dara Sakor international airport to serve Koh Kong’s tourism industry, although the airport’s Chinese developers have been mired in controversy. Then, on Feb. 6, Ouk Pheaktra, another of Koh Kong’s deputy provincial governors, took a delegation from the Council of the Development of Cambodia to a number of islands where investment licenses had already been issued and called on the licensees to expedite their projects. By&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/island-shopping-cambodian-officials-buy-up-the-cardamoms-coast/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Facebook and Instagram posts help locate pygmy seahorses in Taiwan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/facebook-and-instagram-posts-help-locate-pygmy-seahorses-in-taiwan/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2019 10:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Citizen Science, Conservation, Environment, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Research, Seahorses, Social Media, Species Discovery, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pygmy seahorses are fascinating animals. These tiny, colorful seahorses measure less than an inch (2.7 centimeters) and match their body colors and textures to those of the vibrant corals they call home. But these diminutive masters of camoflage are also extremely hard to spot. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that very little is understood about [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pygmy seahorses are fascinating animals. These tiny, colorful seahorses measure less than an inch (2.7 centimeters) and match their body colors and textures to those of the vibrant corals they call home. But these diminutive masters of camoflage are also extremely hard to spot. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that very little is understood about the seven pygmy seahorse species currently known to science. So, Colin Wen, a marine biologist at Taiwan’s Tunghai University, and his colleagues got creative. Their hunt for pygmy seahorses initially started with a search for Denise’s pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise), a species that was first described in 2003 from Indonesia. The species hadn’t been recorded in Taiwan yet, although Wen and his colleagues had heard of rumored sightings at Orchid Island from their scuba diver friends. “By chance, shortly after asking friends in the dive industry to record sightings of pygmy seahorses for us, a photo of H. denise taken at Orchid Island surfaced on social media,” Wen told Mongabay. Encouraged by this, Wen’s wife, Qiaoling, also a marine conservation biologist, suggested that they turn to social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, both very popular in Taiwan, to look for more records of pygmy seahorses in the country. The researchers began contacting underwater photographers and divers. From 2017 to 2019, they also searched for photos and posts on Facebook and Instagram using the Chinese word for pygmy seahorse as the keyword. Their searches turned up 259 social media posts, of which 75 included photographs of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/facebook-and-instagram-posts-help-locate-pygmy-seahorses-in-taiwan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-224157</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Seahorse trade continues despite export bans, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/seahorse-trade-continues-despite-export-bans-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Mar 2019 05:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, East Asia, Hong Kong, India, Philippines, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Thailand, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Seahorses, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seahorses continue to be traded in large volumes, despite many source countries imposing bans on exports of the animals, a new study has found. While some of these peculiarly shaped fishes with horse-like heads and prehensile tails are sold live to be showcased in aquariums, the majority are traded in their dried forms, mainly to be [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seahorses continue to be traded in large volumes, despite many source countries imposing bans on exports of the animals, a new study has found. While some of these peculiarly shaped fishes with horse-like heads and prehensile tails are sold live to be showcased in aquariums, the majority are traded in their dried forms, mainly to be used in traditional Chinese medicines. Between 2004 and 2011, for instance, dried seahorses made up 98 percent of the reported 3.3 million to 7.6 million individual seahorses that were traded. Around 3 million to 5 million of these seahorses were imported by Hong Kong alone. All known species of seahorses (Hippocampus spp.), however, are subject to trade restrictions. In 2002, these tiny animals were added to Appendix II of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), which means only those seahorses that are sourced sustainably and legally can be exported. However, instead of regulating the trade, many countries that previously exported seahorses, such as India, the Philippines and Indonesia, banned the exports outright. Even Thailand, once the world’s largest exporter of dried seahorses, imposed a ban starting January 2016. “This meant that the countries historically responsible for 98% of reported seahorse exports by volume now had self- or CITES-imposed export bans on wild dried seahorses,” said Sarah Foster, lead author of the study published in Marine Policy, and a research associate with the Canada-based Project Seahorse. To see if these bans were being enforced, Foster and her colleagues turned to Hong Kong, the world’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/seahorse-trade-continues-despite-export-bans-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-216298</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The Japan pig is a tiny colorful pygmy seahorse smaller than a fingernail</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/the-japan-pig-is-a-tiny-colorful-pygmy-seahorse-smaller-than-a-fingernail/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Aug 2018 08:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[East Asia, Japan, and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Seahorses, Species Discovery, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers have just described a species of colorful pygmy seahorse that’s both adorable and very easy to miss. The newly described creature, occurring in the waters off the coast of southeast Japan, is much smaller than the average fingernail and camouflages well against the corals and rocks it lives on, researchers report in a new study published [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers have just described a species of colorful pygmy seahorse that’s both adorable and very easy to miss. The newly described creature, occurring in the waters off the coast of southeast Japan, is much smaller than the average fingernail and camouflages well against the corals and rocks it lives on, researchers report in a new study published in ZooKeys. They have officially named the tiny seahorse Japan pig, or Hippocampus japapigu, “because to the locals, it resembles a tiny baby pig,” Graham Short, lead author of the study and an ichthyologist at the California Academy of Sciences, told National Geographic. The Japan pig is now the fifth pygmy seahorse species to be recorded in Japan. More than one Japan pig can fit on a fingernail. Image by Hiroyuki Motomura (part of Short et al. 2018). Despite its tiny size, this species has reportedly been spotted by Japanese scuba divers for many years in the waters off southeast Japan, including those around the island of Kashiwa, Kii Peninsula, Izu Peninsula, and the Ogasawara or Bonin islands, the authors write. The Japan pig’s coloration has what the researchers call a paisley pattern that helps the animal camouflage against corals, algae and seaweed. “Hippocampus japapigu is really hard to find since it is really small and blends into its environment so well,” Short told The Dodo. “The color pattern exhibited by the pygmy seahorse is the exact same color as the rocks and underwater plants it lives on.” Like other pygmy seahorses, the Japan pig has a single&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/the-japan-pig-is-a-tiny-colorful-pygmy-seahorse-smaller-than-a-fingernail/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-209454</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Seahorses on your iPad: new app allows anyone to track and document seahorses</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/seahorses-on-your-ipad-new-app-allows-anyone-to-track-and-document-seahorses/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Nov 2013 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Christina Pham]]>
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						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Environment, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Seahorses, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global marine conservationists seek help to protect seahorses with a new app called iSeahorse. Annually, approximately 13 million seahorses&#8212;live and dead&#8212;are traded around the globe. At this scale, the seahorse trade is potentially very destructive to a group of animals comprised of 48 species, 11 of which are listed by the International Union for Conservation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global marine conservationists seek help to protect seahorses with a new app called iSeahorse. Annually, approximately 13 million seahorses&#8212;live and dead&#8212;are traded around the globe. At this scale, the seahorse trade is potentially very destructive to a group of animals comprised of 48 species, 11 of which are listed by the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) as threatened with extinction. &#8220;We&#8217;ve made important scientific breakthroughs with seahorses in recent years, but they remain incredibly enigmatic animals,&#8221; said Amanda Vincent, Director of Project Seahorse, at the University of Columbia (UBC), and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)&#8217;s joint marine conservation initiative. Small white seahorse (Hippocampus kuda) hiding in sponges. Photo by Nick Hobgood / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. For this reason, scientists from UBC, ZSL and the John G. Shedd Aquarium have launched a smartphone app that allows ordinary people to crowdsource data on these unmistakable fish. The app is specifically designed for users to log details of seahorse sightings on their iPhones or iPads wherever and whenever they encounter the animal. &#8220;We know that seahorses are threatened by overfishing, destructive fishing practices, and habitat loss. Now we need to pinpoint populations and places that most need conservation action,&#8221; said Heather Koldewey, co-founder of Project Seahorse and Head of Global Conservation Programmes at ZSL. iSeahorse hopes to expand interest and knowledge beyond professional scientists to &#8220;citizen scientists,&#8221; everyday people who want to be part of a global initiative to protect seahorses. &#8220;By leveraging the enthusiasm of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/seahorses-on-your-ipad-new-app-allows-anyone-to-track-and-document-seahorses/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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