Abel Tasman & Golden Bay: Granite Arches, Scallop Sands and Northern South Island Kelp
Granite headlands, golden sand and golden kelp: New Zealand's smallest national park meets scallop country at the top of the South Island.
Tom Okafor ·
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Granite headlands, golden sand and golden kelp: New Zealand's smallest national park meets scallop country at the top of the South Island.
Tom Okafor ·
A Tidewright field note from Gulf St Vincent: collecting golden kelp broodstock by torchlight with the Kudjela Sea Country Rangers, two hours either side of low tide.
Jack Callum ·
A coastal atlas guide to Portugal's kelp forests — upwelling-fed golden kelp at its southern Atlantic limit, from the Minho to the Arrábida, and what heat is doing to it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Where a warm current runs the wrong way, kelp forests hold the tropical edge — the Margaret River capes, their wildlife and the heatwave that changed them.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·

Golden kelp drops its spores for two short weeks in Gulf St Vincent. Field notes from a collection week run on the Kudjela Rangers' calendar, not ours.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A ranger-led golden kelp harvest on South Australia's Gulf St Vincent just funded an entire seeding season. Field notes from the week the flywheel turned.
Jack Callum ·

Australia has a second great reef — 8,000 km of temperate kelp forest across five states, more endemic than the Great Barrier Reef, and in serious trouble.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Golden kelp forms the backbone of Australia's Great Southern Reef. Learn to identify Ecklonia radiata and why this habitat-maker is on the move as oceans warm.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·