NPL photographer Claudio Contreras was part of the team commissioned by
Project Seahorse and
International League of Conservation Photographers to make a photographic survey of the Danajon Bank double coral reef in the Philippines, one of the richest areas for marine life in the Pacific Ocean. Project Seahorse has been involved in the creation of 35 marine protected areas and is the charity we are supporting for the second quarter of 2013.
Project Seahorse has gathered one of the world's most comprehensive, long-term datasets on any marine ecosystem in the world. Using this data to study how reef habitats, fish species, and seahorse populations fare with and without pr