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Like any plant or algae, rimurimu, or giant kelp, creates its own food from sunlight. In places, coastal erosion appears to be making our seas too dirty for kelp to photosynthesise. When a kelp forest goes, so does the home of many kelp-dependent species.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 176 July/August 2022.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-kelp/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2022. Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.
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THE KELP
Like any plant or algae, rimurimu, or giant kelp, creates its own food from sunlight. In places, coastal erosion appears to be making our seas too dirty for kelp to photosynthesise. When a kelp forest goes, so does the home of many kelp-dependent species.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 176 July/August 2022.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-kelp/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2022. Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.