Seahorses and Giant Clams

I recently had the chance to visit St John's island TMSI and i did really enjoy the trip. There, i did had the chance to talk to 2 really interesting people who were in charge of the seahorses and giant clams projects. Well, from what i understand is that they are trying to find ways to breed these 2 organisms in-house so as to replenish them back into their natural environment.

I do find this quite disturbing, first, all these organisms are found locally in our southern islands. They were poached and taken illegaly and now our aim is to provide these poachers another chance to go back and take them again indirectly. Again, from what i heard, they are too stopping the funding at the end of this year, and most of the organisms are going to be palced back into the natural environment.

I do see this as a very lucurative trade both economically and environmentally. I wonder who remembered me saying that if an organism is to undergo conservation now, the only way is to make sure that it is financially viable and worthwhile to keep them. Well, i do think that these 2 organisms do satisfy it. There is much more to study about them.