World Nature Conservation Day 28 Jul 2026

Off Anacapa Island, California, United States, the ocean grows its own forests. Within Channel Islands National Park—also known as the "Galápagos of North America"—giant kelp stretches beyond 30 metres in length, forming buoyant ribbons lifted by air-filled bladders and anchored below by rootlike holdfasts.

© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motion

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