Our MD, Samantha Rengers – Deane spoke to Rushton Hurley of Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley about the power of cultivated kelp forests to combat climate change and diversity loss. Samantha also spoke about the innovation that is ocurring in the whole value chain, from hatchery and offshore cultivation to employing biorefinery processing methods to create exciting new products whilst minimising […]
Samantha Deane, Managing Director of the Kelp Forest Foundation (KFF) had the honour of speaking at this years’ Monaco Ocean Week (2022). Click and listen to her session where Samantha described how we creating a biodiversity baseline study to measure the impact of giant kelp cultivation on existing ecosytems. KFF shared the podium with Nathan […]
KFF receives a grant from the Moore Foundation for Carbon Sequestration Modelling
Photo: Amy McConnell, a Canadian Kelp Resources Ltd. lab technician, holds up a piece of giant kelp in the Trevor Channel in Vancouver Island, on Aug. 19 2020. PHOTO BY: Melissa Renwick for TIME In a cove in Bamfield, a coastal community in British Columbia, Canada, Louis Druehl steers his boat, The Kelp Express, a mile along […]
When we think of kelp, we conjure up images of magical underwater forests. Recent research, however, suggests that in addition to creating beautiful habitats, macroalgae such as kelp play a large role reducing the effects of global warming. Kelp has an incredibly fast growth rate (up to two feet per day) and exports a large […]
Photo: Kelp forest views from below the ocean surface PHOTO BY: Andrew B Stowe – Shutterstock Researchers are looking to kelp for help storing carbon dioxide far beneath the surface of the sea. Sixty years ago, Tasmania’s coastline was cushioned by a velvety forest of kelp so dense it would ensnare local fishers as they headed […]
Photo: A mix of kelp, Irish moss and sea lettuce harvested off the coast of Maine.PHOTO BY: Rebecca Hale, NAT GEO image collection Farming seaweed, then sinking the mature plants to the bottom of the ocean, could be an effective way to fight warming. So why don’t we do it? As the Amazon burns, there’s […]
