← on nowLGR-026 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many seahorses are killed every second, every day, every year?
seahorses · Hippocampus
dried, for medicine and curios
37 million
a year
1.2
a second
101,300
a day
left in the wild
?
no ledger. most are bycatch of shrimp trawls, sold on instead of thrown back.
method Lawson et al. 2017 (Project Seahorse) trade estimate.
- the male carries the young.source: Project Seahorse; Lawson et al. 2017
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
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or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
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how this number is built
- method
- Lawson et al. 2017 (Project Seahorse) trade estimate.
- range
- 20–37 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- trade is largely undocumented; the figure is a decade old.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-026 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0