- What are the features and how to differentiate the sex of Hippocampus kuda?
- What are the immediate threats to T. Kupang's seagrass bed ?
- Why SOS choose SEAHORSES as a flagship species?
1. What are the features and how to differentiate the sex of Hippocampus kuda?
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Drawing
from Lourie et al. 1999. Identification guide to the world's seahorse
species and their conservation.Project Seahorse. London.
2. What are the immediate threats to T. Kupang's seagrass bed?
- The
removal of mangrove strip for the construction of warehouse along the
shoreline may cause sedimentation and kills seagrasses.
- Dredging activities to make way for shipping channel.
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3. WHY SOS choose SEAHORSES as a flagship species ?
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Seahorses are extremely unusual. They are fishes but have horse-like head, a prehensile tail and pregnancy occurs in males.
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They live around seagrass and mangrove areas.
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They are endangered as declared by the World Union of Conservaiton Nation.
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They are probably the fastest-dwindling species
affected by development around the Pulai River Estuary. Research
estimated that there are less than 400 seahorses in the estuary.
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