Kelp is the New Coral
The Kelp Education & Learning Project (K.E.L.P.) is a global outreach and engagement campaign led by Blue Frontier to raise awareness, build coalitions, and mobilize action to protect and restore the world’s rapidly declining marine forests.
In terms of growing awareness we think that ‘Kelp is the new Coral!’ Through film screenings, a book tour, articles and reviews for Forest of the Sea and the development of an Ocean Kelp Action Plan, KELP will connect scientists, communities, policymakers,youth and conservation groups to advance protection, restoration, and policy solutions for these critical marine ecosystems.
Beneath the gray swells of the world's cold-water coasts lies a golden, light-shot forest thirty million years in the making, and it is dying on our watch. In Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp (Island Press), his eighth book, award-winning journalist and veteran diver David Helvarg drops below the surface to show what most of us never see: a three-dimensional wilderness of sharks, otters, eels, rockfish, sea stars and crabs that sustains both a functioning ocean and the coastal towns that live off it. Unlike coral reefs, whose bleaching plays out in front of snorkeling tourists, kelp is going quietly, its canopies giving way to barren urchin-strewn seafloor as the water warms. Helvarg traces kelp's natural and human history, the billions of dollars it adds to the global economy, and the careless ways we are unraveling it. He also finds reason to fight: Indigenous leaders bringing sea otters home, out-of-work urchin divers, filmmakers and ocean scientists forming an unlikely alliance to replant and protect these forests while opening new uses for kelp as food, medicine and energy. The first book to reckon fully with what we stand to lose, it is also a call to action, a reminder that science, culture and stubborn hope can still bring back one of the planet's great living treasures.
Forest of the sea
Eight Books, One Mission: Saving Our Blue Planet
Forest of the Sea
Rescue Warriors
The Golden Shore
Saved by the Sea
War Against the Greens
50 Ways to Save the Ocean
The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide 2005-2006
Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness
David Helvarg has spent decades chronicling the fight for our oceans — and the fighters themselves. From The War Against the Greens, an unflinching look at the backlash facing environmentalists, to Blue Frontier and Rescue Warriors, his deep dives into ocean policy and the Coast Guard's conservation role, Helvarg's writing bridges hard journalism and hard-won hope. The Golden Shore traces California's complicated relationship with its coastline, while Saved by the Sea turns personal, exploring what the ocean means to those who love it. And 50 Ways to Save the Ocean — winner of the Herman Melville Award and inspiration for an award-winning video — has sold over 20,000 copies by putting real, actionable solutions in readers' hands. Together, these six books (with a seventh underway) form a body of work as vital and restless as the sea itself.
Sequoias of the Sea: The Vanishing Kelp Forests of California
More than 95% of the kelp forests have disappeared along the Northern California Coast.
SEQUOIAS OF THE SEA tells the story of the environmental, cultural and economic destruction impacting a coastal town that has lost its coastal kelp forest. It’s a deep dive into the lives of fishermen, tribes, scientists, and a community working to restore a habitat devastated by a warming climate.