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Sustainable Choices to Protect White's Seahorse and the Red Panda

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White's Seahorse The species picked is a seahorse known as Whites Seahorse, New Holland Seahorse, or the Sydney Seahorse. This certain animal is native to the southeast part of Australia in the Pacific Ocean and are a non-migratory animal. Many of these animals are found in shallow parts of the water where light can reach such as estuaries, seagrass, and harbors at about 40 feet down and tend to be very camouflaged in colors ranging from grey, brown, and black ( Mcgrouther ).  They tend to keep their habitats in elaborate corals and structures that can produce a good food source, this includes amphipods and small crustaceans. The predators to the seahorse are an abundance of marine animals since these animals are primary consumers. As for mating for these animals, they mate between October and April. These creatures keep one mate for their entire life.  These animals have been vulnerable and declining since 1996 and continue to decline as pollution and overfishing...