{"id":16061,"title":"Restoring Kelp Forests","description":"Every month a percentage of our profits are invested into  Mossy Earth, a team that are restoring nature and fighting climate change. First and foremost they plant trees on our behalf but they also conduct other rewilding projects and most recently trialing Kelp Restoration. These underwater forests provide habitat for fish, clean the water and sequester carbon.","content":"<h2>Mossy Earth implements kelp restoration trials.<\/h2><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/exm6fa0a4j6ylmmkvn5n0ags8w0qflw2pzgj8hfdsckjmqvr.png.jpg?w=1140&amp;h=auto\" alt=\"\" title=\"88422799\" \/><br \/><\/p><h3>Every month a percentage of our profits are invested into Mossy Earth, a team that are restoring nature and fighting climate change. First and foremost they plant trees on our behalf but they also conduct other rewilding projects and most recently trialing Kelp Restoration. <strong>These underwater forests provide habitat for fish, clean the water and sequester carbon.<\/strong><\/h3><p><br \/><br \/>Kelp are large brown seaweeds belonging to the order\u00a0<em>Laminariales\u00a0<\/em>and are widely known for the impressive subaquatic forests that they form. In order to bring back these kelp forests to the areas from which they have disappeared it is important to test and refine available techniques.<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMEwTngMCTI\/?modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;vq=highres\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><p><br \/>This project involves carrying out a trial to test the\u00a0<strong>\u201cspore bag\u201d seeding technique<\/strong>\u00a0to bring back golden kelp (<em>Laminaria ochroleuca<\/em>) to the coast of Cascais, Portugal where it used to be very abundant. Reproductive structures of the plant are collected from donor populations, placed in mesh bags and attached to the rocky reef identified for restoration. The idea is for the spores to be released from the reproductive structures, to settle on the underlying bedrock and create new patches of kelp forest.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mossy.earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mossy Earth<\/a><\/strong> are working with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/seaforester.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sea Forester<\/a><\/strong> on this project and if proven successful these underwater forests could be a crucial step to mitigating climate change and limiting the loss of biodiversity in the ocean.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/lprduf2p3t9uqbpcmif7svjj6h0iya3we9jsy8uk02rm9pgq.png.jpg?w=1140&amp;h=auto\" alt=\"\" title=\"88422280\" \/><br \/><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mossy.earth\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/vc8qk27vyc7ifqvxmmekzvbysl0xosja15vgcxglbw3oxgjg.png.jpg?w=1140&amp;h=auto\" alt=\"\" title=\"88505513\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>","urlTitle":"restoring-kelp-forests","url":"\/blog\/restoring-kelp-forests\/","editListUrl":"\/my-blogs","editUrl":"\/my-blogs\/edit\/restoring-kelp-forests\/","fullUrl":"https:\/\/severn-brand.com\/blog\/restoring-kelp-forests\/","featured":false,"published":true,"showOnSitemap":true,"hidden":false,"visibility":null,"createdAt":1643620535,"updatedAt":1643692155,"publishedAt":1643692155,"lastReadAt":null,"division":{"id":96677,"name":"Severn"},"tags":[{"id":1439,"code":"impact","name":"Impact","url":"\/blog\/tagged\/impact\/"}],"metaImage":{"original":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/d9patfmj05ph8npvfxlg52pkptft3zxavetgdj0w6lodefsj.png","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/d9patfmj05ph8npvfxlg52pkptft3zxavetgdj0w6lodefsj.png.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/d9patfmj05ph8npvfxlg52pkptft3zxavetgdj0w6lodefsj.png.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"metaTitle":"","metaDescription":"","series":[],"similarReads":[{"id":14920,"title":"2021 In Numbers","url":"\/blog\/2021-in-numbers\/","urlTitle":"2021-in-numbers","division":96677,"description":"We take a look at the statistics of our first full year and see how we're doing with our goals of sustainability and delivering the products that bodyboarders want. 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