The optimal time to snorkel in South Africa's kelp forests is during the summer months, specifically from December to ...

The kelp forests off the southern tip of South Africa are fed almost constantly by two vast deep sea currents which deliver nutrients year round. As a consequence they are incredibly productive ...

They snooze and bellow and nurse pups, and now and then heave themselves into the Atlantic, where snorkelers can join them in their frolics around reefs and through kelp forests. Sunlight sparkles ...

A Film By Now Now Media. Presented by FCS. Riding The Sardine Run tells the story of a group of surfers chasing waves along a remote stretch of the South A ...

I grew up in a small wooden bungalow on the Atlantic Ocean at the tip of Africa and when I was 3 years old, I started swimming in the kelp forest. This sea forest is my other home. It's where I ...

The Great African Seaforest ... "We have lost most of our large fish species, adult fish, and the cultures and behaviours that once shaped the ecology of the kelp forest," explains Landschoff.

“But then you think about how that was once a kelp forest. … There’s just so much less biodiversity, less fish, and just a lot less everything. It’s replaced with urchins.” After monitoring the urchin ...