Save Our Seahorse

This is one of my travel trip with friends, to Save the Seahorse. Do you know that there are existence of these tiny creatures in the Pulai River Estuary in Johor, Malaysia?

Since 1995, massive port development around Pulai River Estuary have destroyed large tracts of seagrass beds, which are home to the Spotted Seahorse, Hippocampus kuda.

Now we still can see the seagrass bed, but will we able to see it again once the port developed to the extreme?

We, as volunteers will need to help the SOS Researcher to spot living seahorse for them to tag and do population statistic. It was said that the seahorse has now become endangered species.

No worries, the luminescent dye tagged on their body will not affect their health and habitat. After tagging, we measure their length and check if got parasite on their body.

Seahorse has a tendency to curl his tail at the base of seagrass because the big tide might just flush them away. Therefore once you found them should let them curl at your finger too. To make them feel safe.

After finish tagging, measure length, see their health status, we will put them back to their home - Pulai River Estruary. We don't know till when we still able to see the seahorse living there. But we as volunteer trying our best to save our seahorse!

Did I told you it feel really great when you can hold the living seahorse once you hardly found it through the murky seawater?

If you want to do your part on saving the seahorse too, please join their SOS Volunteer Program by surfing http://www.sosmalaysia.org

Life's Good when you are able to save a life.