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Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong

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Hong Kong Students Raise the Living Fossils

Ocean Life

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Horseshoe crabs are older than the dinosaurs and Hong Kong lost over 90% of its wild ones in seven years, so schoolchildren began hand-raising juveniles for release and volunteers now count them on 17 mudflats.

17sitesMudflat spawning and nursery sites in the annual juvenile survey
90%Decline in Hong Kong's wild horseshoe crab population, 2002 to 2009
975crabsHand-reared horseshoe crabs released since 2009
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