Amanda Vincent

So sad that a marine cone snail (Conus lugubris) has just been declared Extinct on the #IUCNRedList. Being predatory and venomous was not enough to save it. Degradation of its Cabo Verde habitats was the main problem. www.iucnredlist.org/search?query...

Here's a great World Conservation Congress hybrid event on Friday at 3 am in New York and midnight in Vancouver. We will cover fungi, plants, fish and more in a bid to really indicate the huge scale of the trade... and its impacts. Co-hosted by @sscmarine.bsky.social

At the World Conservaiton Congress in Abu Dhabi. Here's a really important push to foster joined up thinking, research, management and policy. Co-hosted by @sscmarine.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social and other partners. Supports Motion 20 already adopted by the @IUCN.

So delighted by this gorgeous batik art inspired by our #IconicFishes. Share your sightings of the magical seahorses, pipefishes, seadragons, trumpetfish, cornetfish, bellowsfish and ghost pipefish. And consider creating your own art, too! Read more here: iconicfishes.art

Calling all artists, makers, creators, dreamers.... We'd love to you help inspire passion for our #IconicFishes. Whether you compose organ music, make potato prints, design jewellery, paint with oils, build driftwood sculptures or dance with delight... we would love you to take part in our movement.

We are so excited to be launching an arts movement for our most iconic of all fishes... capture their mystery and magic in your art form... or capture somebody else's artistic depiction... whatever you do, tag it #iconicfishes.

Introducing “Inspired by #IconicFishes”, a global arts movement for our ocean’s quirkiest fishes — Inspired by Iconic Fishes A global arts movement inviting people of all ages, from every part of the world, to celebrate the wondrous lives of truly iconic fishes: seahorses, pipefish, seadragons, and their cousins: ghost pipe...

Crazy special fishes!! Read our web story explaining the launch of our new arts movement. We invite you to help us grow the excitement about our #IconicFishes and their conservation. @projectseahorse.bsky.social @iucnseahorse.bsky.social

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Introducing “Inspired by #IconicFishes”, a global arts movement for our ocean’s quirkiest fishes — Inspired by Iconic Fishes A global arts movement inviting people of all ages, from every part of the world, to celebrate the wondrous lives of truly iconic fishes: seahorses, pipefish, seadragons, and their cousins: ghost pipe...

🌊 Whether you paint 🎨, dance 💃, doodle ✏️, weave 🧵, write ✍️, design jewellery 💎, compose music 🎶, build Legos 🧩, cut potato prints 🥔or create in ways we haven’t even imagined, this is your invitation to join a global arts movement Inspired by #IconicFishes
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✨Meet the showstopper of our #IconicFishes lineup, the #seadragon: enchanting and full of flair 🪩.
💡There are three species of seadragons, all from the same family as seahorses & pipefishes.
🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨Meet the sixth star in our #IconicFishes lineup, the bellowsfish 🎶
💡There are six species of #bellowsfish, other members of the same family include snipefishes, shrimpfishes, & razorfishes.
🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take center stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨Meet the fifth star in our #IconicFishes lineup, the cornetfish 🎺 Also known as Flutemouth.💡Did you know? There are four species of cornetfishes, found in most parts of the tropics.
🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨Meet the fourth star in our #IconicFishes lineup, the trumpetfish 🎺
💡Did you know? There are three species of trumpetfish. These tropical beauties are found across much of the world’s oceans.
🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in an arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨ Meet the third star in our #IconicFishes lineup: the ghost pipefish 🎶
💡Did you know?
There are 6 species of ghost pipefish, & they are found in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific.
🎨 Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes 🎭

🌊 Say hello to the second star in our #IconicFishes lineup: the pipefish 🎶
💡 Did you know? There are over 225 species of pipefishes and they belong to the same family as the seahorse!
🎨 Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage 🎭🌟 in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

🌊 First up in our #IconicFishes lineup: the magical seahorse.
🎶 One could even say it leads the orchestra of ocean’s quirkiest performers: Pipefish, Ghost Pipefish, Trumpetfish, Cornetfish, Bellowsfish, & Seadragon, the elegant dancer.
Stay tuned as they take centre stage in #InspiredByIconicFishes

Introducing our #IconicFishes! 📣These quirky little wonders of the ocean each have their own charm and story to tell. Stay tuned as they take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement, "Inspired by Iconic Fishes". 🎭🎨🖌️🎶🪩🎥

#InspiredByIconicFishes #SavingIconicFishes

Canada Excellence Research Chairs: 2026 Competition The 2026 Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) competition has now launched.

Hey. @ubcoceans.bsky.social is hiring for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Deadline 12 Sept. To join us, apply here: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

The woman saving seahorses from ‘annihilation fishing’ | CNN Scientists say catching fish by bottom trawling is destroying marine habitats. Amanda Vincent is on a mission to change that.

All this talk about #BottomTrawling reminds me of a 5 minute film I made with @cnn.com on how such destructive fishing affects seahorses. @projectseahorse.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Project Seahorse End Bottom Trawling - the waste of life is a disaster

If you want to #EndBottomTrawling as much as I do... here's our one minute video summary of some #BottomTrawling concerns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ5X...
@projectseahorse.bsky.social Please repost.

Ocean damage 'unspeakably awful', Attenborough tells William Sir David Attenborough told Prince William he hopes the UN oceans conference will bring new protections.

I'm keeping exalted company just now ... at least in the news... as we all focus on #BottomTrawling @projectseahorse.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some of our @projectseahorse.bsky.social research on #BottomTrawling is featured in this story. We have much more emerging, too, as we work to #EndBottomTrawling

Entertainment or emergency? Global leaders heed Attenboro... Naturalist David Attenborough’s film Ocean highlighted the destructive fishing practice of bottom trawling, which involves dragging the seabed with heavy...

So pleased to see that #BottomTrawling is rising rapidly up the #UNOC3 agenda. Our @projectseahorse.bsky.social work on #BottomTrawling is featured in today's story in ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social. @ubcoceans.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/oceans/...

We consulted co-Chairs of the @sscmarine.bsky.social taxon expert groups and they told about non-selective fisheries exerting huge pressures on their very diverse taxa, particularly from #BottomTrawls and #Gillnets. @projectseahorse.bsky.social

We must transition determinedly to #EndBottomTrawling,

More on the news from #UNOC3
•⁠ ⁠186,000 km² will be reserved for artisanal fishing out to 15 miles around each island.
•⁠ ⁠A one-year extension is granted to reach an agreement with industrial fishermen, with a view to reinforcing protection in the Marquesas and Austral islands by June 8, 2026.

News from #UNOC3: The entire exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of French Polynesia - 5 million km² - will be converted into a marine protected area (MPA), making it the largest MPA in the world. •⁠ ⁠1.1 million km² will be placed under strong protection status, equivalent to IUCN category 2

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