Baby giant kelps were planted across 7000 square metres of reef in southeast Tasmania last month, in the first attempt at ‘forestscale’ kelp restoration in the Southern Hemisphere. If successful, the unique restoration project will create an area resembling a natural giant kelp forest. It’s the result of over four years of dedicated research by the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) marine ecologists, to investigate various methods and aspects of replanting giant kelp (Videography by Stefan Andrews | Ocean Imaging)