More than 90% of the kelp forests have disappeared along the Northern California Coast

This film will take viewers on a journey of the Sequoias of the Sea and the challenges facing our disappearing sea forests.

Kelp forests cover a quarter of the world’s coastlines, providing food and shelter for thousands of species, while also sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. But over the past decade a third of these forests have been lost across the planet. Along the 350 mile stretch of coastline from San Francisco to the Oregon Border we have lost a striking 95% of kelp forests. While many other important ocean ecosystems are getting attention, such as coral reefs, kelp is the lost forest of the ocean that is disappearing before our eyes.  

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Read more about our vanishing kelp forests in this New York Times article by David Helvarg, “Warmer Oceans Threaten Another California Forest, This One Underwater”