Achievements

Data

The amount of data collected so far by our participants is immense, and already we are putting it to good use!

• research paper submitted on population abundances of seadragons on the eastern seaboard (2025)
• re-evaluation of the IUCN Red List conservation status of the weedy or common seadragon (2024)
• provided population trends information to the State of the Environment report for Victoria (2024)
• shared data to the Environmental Protection Authority/Department of Water and Environmental Regulation to assist assessing proposed activities (2022)
• provided data for the South Coast Park Marine Reserve review (2021)

Together, our contributions are remarkable, and the project is going from strength to strength!

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Contributors honour board 

(valid at 27 April 2026)

Contributor	State	100	500	1000	5000
Andrew Trevor-Jones	NSW	✔	✔	✔	✔
John Smith	TAS	✔	✔	✔
Michael Roelens	WA	✔	✔	✔
Joe Sainsbury	WA	✔	✔	✔
Imogen Manins	VIC	✔	✔	✔
Gavin Broom	WA	✔	✔
Claude Spencer	WA	✔	✔
Craig Lebens	WA	✔	✔
Morgan Kurrajong	VIC	✔	✔
Mervyn Dannefaerd	VIC	✔
Jared Tracey	VIC	✔
Michelle Peak	WA	✔
Elaine Lek	WA	✔
Sam Glenn-Smith	VIC	✔
Martin Crossley	WA	✔
Rhiannon de Visser	WA	✔
Steve Norris	WA	✔
Marcus Liley	WA	✔
Kade Mills	VIC	✔
Jane John	WA	✔
Daniel Whittle	WA	✔
Maryann Evetts	WA	✔
Keith Martin-Smith	TAS	✔
Myra Kelly	VIC	✔
Jenny Kikeros	WA	✔
Kiesha Wear	WA	✔
Ryleigh Broughton	VIC	✔
Scott Portelli	NSW	✔
Lars Sigge	VIC	✔
Mike Jones	NSW	✔
Marco Bordieri	NSW	✔
Pete McGee	NSW	✔

If you would like us to check on your own tally, just send an email to admin@seadragonsearch.org and we will get right back to you!

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Selected media

Conservation X labs (2025) Searching for Seadragons

Science news (2024) This biologist tracks seadragons, with help from the public

TEDxPerth (2023) How AI and crowd-sourcing helps us understand seadragons

Ocean Geographic (2020) Chasing dragons