No hope was given to this species of animal.
But now a specimen has been sighted - by a little girl.
A girl discovered
an absolutely
rare specimen of
an animal
on the
North Sea beach
.
Sightings of the
genus
are even
counted separately
in
databases
.
Now it is speculated whether the
species
will reproduce more strongly again.
North Sea - This animal has
long been considered extinct
in the German
Wadden Sea
- that's why the find is a hit!
A six-year-old girl came
across the remains of a
hippocampus
on the Dutch
North Sea beach
.
Of a
sea horse
.
Since
1886
, only about
seventy specimens of
this genus have been discovered
in the North and Baltic Seas
- for decades none at all, the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) is
amazed at
this news.
Six-year-old makes a spectacular find at the North Sea - many are now raising their hopes
Only the body and tail of the animal were left.
Now the
sensational find
gives
many hope that this species will return.
"Seahorses have been sighted more frequently since 1998, initially in Belgium, but in 2007 several specimens were found in the Dutch and German Wadden Sea," writes the
FAZ
.
Is the seahorse returning to the North Sea?
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- BVT Bundesverband (@BVTonline) August 31, 2020
Sensational discovery in the North Sea: Seahorse sightings are so rare that they have their own databases
She therefore asked the biologist Rainer Borcherding about the current seahorse find.
The employee of the
Wadden Sea Protection
Station
in
Husum
operates the website
www.beachexplorer.org.
Here everyone can report their finds on the beach
-
the
database
is impressive: According to the report, Borcherding has compiled seahorse sightings from over a hundred years.
Climate change is changing the North Sea - are southern species like the seahorse coming?
According to the expert, these animals prefer to live in
warmer
water - and
climate change, of
all things
,
with the associated
warming of
the water by
1.3 degrees, is
causing
cod to
disappear, but promoting
southern species
such as seahorses.
Seagrass meadows
are therefore the
natural habitat of
the seahorse.
"Our observations show that the seagrass meadows in the northern Wadden Sea are clearly expanding again", quoted the newspaper Christian Buschbaum from the
Wadden Sea Station Sylt of
the Alfred Wegener Institute.
But he does not believe that the seahorse will bloom along with the seagrass: “The majority of the seagrass meadows that have returned are in areas that dry out when the water is low.”
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