The Tools
Thanks to our diversely skilled team we have the opportunity to trial different methods and test what suits our local seaweeds and environmental conditions.
We will be trialling different techniques ranging from excluding grazing kina (sea urchins), transferring adult seaweed plants from healthy sites, to re-seeding baby seaweeds in the laboratory and releasing them to the wild in nurseries.
To monitor what works and what doesn’t, we’ll be working with our science team, including citizen scientists to research, monitor and learn as we as we go.
If you would like to know more about Citizen Science Monitoring projects, check out Project Baseline Wellington who are collecting crucial data on kelp and kina (sea urchin) density and distribution along the coastline!
