Saving The Seahorse Means Saving The Sea

 

                                                                     

      

                                                                                        

                                                                                                          

                        

  THE STAR


11.06.2002      Saving the seahorse            HILARY CHIEW

ON THE horizon, dawn is breaking but it is still dark as we gingerly sink our feet into the mudflat. We are to move in this squashy condition for the next two hours. Bravely, we plod on. MORE>>

 

04.11.2003     Ramsar sites threatened         HILARY CHIEW

THE country's commitment to environmental protection scored an impressive record in February: three wetlands in Johor joined Tasik Bera in Pahang on the coveted Ramsar list ¡V an international listing of important wetlands that comes under the Ramsar Convention. MORE>>

 

03.02.2004      Testing the water           HILARY CHIEW

IMAGINE the delight of finding your precious research specimens in the murky waters of a seagrass bed after they went out of sight for more than 100 days. It must have been akin to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. MORE>>


23.08.2005     Port Backs Conservation
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) will work with Save Our Seahorses (SOS) in their bid to conserve the Spotted Seahorse, Hippocampus kuda, in the sea grass beds at the Pulai River Estuary, Johor. MORE>>



 The New StraitsTimes

22 Aug 2005   Galloping to seahorse rescue  
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) is willing to work with a group of conservationists to save a seagrass bed at Tanjung Kupang which is a habitat of seahorses.
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  MALAYSIA KINI


11 May 2005      Johor losing another wetland      CK Choo

At the Pulai River estuary, hundreds of hectares of mangroves and a huge seagrass bed in the middle of the Johor Straits are about to make way for development. MORE>>



  光华日报


20-5-2003        柔佛薄莱河珍宝──黄金海马濒临绝种

晓璇报道 (上篇)

在柔佛州西南端,最近因有三处湿地:龟咯岛(PULAU KUKUP)、丹绒比艾(TANJUNG PIAI)及蒲莱河(SUNGAI PULAI ),被州政府申办列为世界受保护湿地(RAMSAR SITE)而备受环保界的关注。 MORE>>

 

21-5-2003      拯救免面临灭绝──保护海马路漫长

邓晓璇报道 (下篇)

海马因其头部酷似马头而得名,实际上它是一种浅海鱼类,用鳃呼吸,能用脊鳍和胸鳍垂直"站水"、摆动游泳,隶属海龙目海龙科海马,身高最长约30公分。 MORE>>

 

  星洲日报


12-3-2005              海草丛是生物庇护所 (海中草原系列一)

刘美珊报道

在河流出海口的淺海水域,常常可以看見一大片一大片的海草,糾結散佈在海面上,看起來蠻駭人的,不過,對千千萬萬海洋生物而言,在人類眼中其貌不揚的海草叢,卻是他們最溫暖安全的家。MORE>>

 

14-3-2005             海洋生物不可无海草 中草原系列二)

刘美珊报道 

海草,是一種開花的草本高等植物,常常大片生長在靠近海岸的河口中,海草的根系發達,深植在河口泥濘淺灘水域,有助鞏固海岸線被海浪沖刷侵蝕。MORE>>

 

15-3-2005          设计划吞噬水中生物家园 威胁埔莱河 (海中草原系列三.完)

刘美珊报道 

朱及光說,10多年前,當埔萊河還未開發時,河口流域大片的紅樹林、淺灘,是多少肉眼看得見、看不見的海洋生物的家,隨著一個個開發計畫接踵而至,埔萊河流域的水中生物,只能步步退讓。 MORE>>

 

18-6-2005              溫柔的堅持:柔佛州蒲來河流域海馬保育計劃 

蘇俊翔报道

說到海馬,大家馬上想到的大概是一種有著像馬一樣的頭、細長的嘴和卷屈身軀的一種奇型怪狀的海中生物。牠的模樣溫和憨厚,而且總是以"吊"在水中的方式緩緩移動,模樣十分逗趣可愛。 MORE>>