Kelp restoration & seaweed saunas with Love Rimurimu (Zoe Studd)

You are going to love this conversation if you dream of spending a week greeting the sun with seaweed songs, having seaweed baths after saunas, if you’re into seaweed tattoos, if you’re a student or a teacher and you wanna go diving, and generally if you’re into the idea of regenerating underwater forests 🤿🛀🏽

Along with the team and communities behind Love Rimurimu, Zoe Studd is doing all of these things. Zoe is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Mountains to Sea Wellington Trust, where she manages both marine and freshwater education programs and citizen science programs, working with schools and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. We talk about starting kelp restoration projects in schools, regenerating coastlines with science and cultural knowledge, and running a kickass seaweed festival.

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Links to other stuff in this ep:

Seaweeds of Wellington (video ID)

Mountains to Sea Wellington

Experiencing Marine Reserves community program

New Zealand approves first special permit to remove kina barrens

Project Baseline Wellington

Kelp Forest Alliance website (or listen to Episode 11 with Aaron Eger)

Green Gravel Group

Love Rimurimu’s Seaweed Restoration Toolkit