It's #FathersDay!

‘"Nursing Fathers": A Humorous Commentary,’ The Sphere, April 1927. It depicts good king penguin and seahorse dads. The seahorse fry are being eaten by a jellyfish, though. Not sure what's humorous about that, but it's nice that male parenting in nature was celebrated in 1927 - we could do with more of that today. 🌈🐧

#nature #animals #biology #penguins #seahorses #science #history #hstm @[email protected] @histodons @history @histodon @histstm

🌊✨ We are excited to share the 2025 Achievements report! From the Philippines to Peru, we spent 2025 turning science into real-world conservation for #seahorses and their habitats!

🔗Read the report here: https://projectseahorse.org/achievements2025/

#ProjectSeahorse #AdvancingMarineConservation #SavingSeahorses

Photo credit: © Gaetano Garguilo / Guylian Seahorses of the World

📰 WILDLIFE WEDNESDAY

🌍 Mozambique: A community-led effort to stop devastating seahorse harvesting has been successful.

💰 The effort had to overcome a high economic motivation to pull and dry the regulated fish illegally for the black market. The rate of extraction was projected to eliminate all seahorses within a decade.

🤿 The solution involved creating an alternative: community-led, seahorse-focused ecotourism. Former extractors now take visitors on easy, low-impact snorkeling tours through seagrass.

💪 The community protects the seahorses now as central to their livelihood.

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/seahorse-conservation-mozambique

#WildlifeWednesday #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Wildlife #Conservation #WildlifeConservation #Seahorses

Seahorses were being pulled from Mozambique's ocean at an alarming rate. Then something incredible happened | Discover Wildlife

A community-led initiative to transform poachers into protectors is turning the tide for seahorses in the waters off Mozambique

Discover Wildlife

And now for something completely different.

#seahorses #love #couple #monochrome #bnw #aquazoo #nature #oceanlife #photography #photographer

Location: Aquazoo, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten, My Seahorse Muse by Darlene Williams

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RBw4xGhv9kA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDWQQT5C The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten: My Seahorse Muse is the first in a series of children’s books written by Darlene Williams, PhD. This book is written in the voice of a ten-year-old girl who is dealing with the death of her grandmother. This book, while fiction, is based on a real-life adventure by the author who experienced a visit by a seahorse while standing on a sandbar. Inside of the […]

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/04/18/the-healing-real-life-adventures-of-emily-rose-garten-my-seahorse-muse-by-darlene-williams-2/

The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten, My Seahorse Muse by Darlene Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMN9H4TlAfk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDWQQT5C he Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten: My Seahorse Muse is the first in a series of children’s books written by Darlene Williams, PhD. This book is written in the voice of a ten-year-old girl who is dealing with the death of her grandmother. This book, while fiction, is based on a real-life adventure by the author who experienced a visit by a seahorse while standing on a sandbar. Inside of the […]

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/04/09/the-healing-real-life-adventures-of-emily-rose-garten-my-seahorse-muse-by-darlene-williams/

The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten, My Seahorse Muse by Darlene Williams, PhD

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DR-hbg8XL0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDWQQT5C The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten: My Seahorse Muse is the first in a series of children’s books written by Darlene Williams, PhD. This book is written in the voice of a ten-year-old girl who is dealing with the death of her grandmother. This book, while fiction, is based on a real-life adventure by the author who experienced a visit by a seahorse while standing on a sandbar. Inside of the […]

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/03/27/the-healing-real-life-adventures-of-emily-rose-garten-my-seahorse-muse-by-darlene-williams-phd/

All-around very cool story and well worth the read. 💛

#Nuns & #NativeWomen from the #indigenous #Shinnecook tribe in #NewYork have started a #kelp #farm to help remove #carbon & #nitrogen / #nitrates #pollution from their #ocean waters.

After two years, there are #scallops, #clams, #SeaHorses, and other #MarineLife not seen in years, sheltering the kelp lines.

It's not just an #environmental success story, but of #friendship, #allyship, & support as well. 💪

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/shinnecock-tribe-nuns-kelp-farm-long-island-bay

#Seaweed #Kindness #Poetry

Saved by seaweed: nuns and Native women heal polluted New York waters using kelp

The sisters and a group of women from a local Indigenous tribe started a kelp farm in the hopes of cleaning up the pollution in their shared backyard

The Guardian
For the first #FishFriday of #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse here is a pair of hippocampus-style #seahorses mingling with the more fishy looking #fish 😛
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. IV. 35, f. 18v
(Greek Physiologus), 16th c.
https://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3A193.206.197.121%3A18%3AVE0049%3ACSTOR.241.10734