Kelp forests are vanishing all around the world. Fast.
We’re developing science-backed solutions to restore and strengthen them.
From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all First Nations people that call this land and water home. The Kelp Rescue Initiative is firm and proactive in our commitment and responsibility to improving relationships and our own understanding of local Indigenous peoples and their cultures. The Kelp Rescue Initiative is grateful to have our home in the traditional territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, a Nuu-chah-nulth Nation and member of the Maa-nulth Treaty Society
Our Goal
Kelp forests are some of the most vital ecosystems in cool coastal waters: they support a rich diversity of marine life, protect coastlines from erosion, and cycle nutrients and carbon while producing oxygen. However, these underwater forests are rapidly disappearing in many parts of the world primarily due to ocean warming and overgrazing by sea urchins.
To safeguard kelp forests and ensure their persistence into the future, we need science-backed solutions to preserve, strengthen and restore kelp forests.
The Kelp Rescue Initiative actively develops and tests scalable restoration approaches and leads research on kelp ecology, genetics and spatio-temporal kelp dynamics.
