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New York City was a biodiverse #sea of big ideas, bright minds and glowing lights last week during #NYClimateWeek 🌊 We were proud to be in town with our team to make a splash at The Explorers Club with our artist pal Benjamin Von Wong to unveil the official sneak-peak of our plans for how we will be collaborating to connect our love for the ocean — to the dire need to protect and restore biodiversity around the globe at the upcoming Biodiversity COP16 event in Colombia ( one of the most biodiverse & surf-blessed counties in the world). 🌎 It's got something to do with a 2 story #Jenga game tower ( where each block represents a different ecosystem including coral reefs, mangrove forests , seagrass meadows and more ) that will be placed right in the middle of the #BlueZone at COP16, where delegates from around the world will have to pass by Benjamin Von Wong’s towering Biodiversity Jenga art installation everyday for a week — which symbolizes of the perilous game that humans playing with the health of our ocean planet's marine & terrestrial ecosystems , that we all depend on for healthy food, fresh air and clean water. SeaTrees is stoked to partner with Benjamin and his team to bring this type of creative activism to the world stage, to put solving the Biodiversity crisis on par with reversing the Climate crisis — and we were stoked to hear both the Colombian Ambassadors to the U.S. and the UN speak at @the_explorers_club that night about how the COP16 Colombia conference had the exact same goal. In addition to the #activism — SeaTrees will also be bringing a new tool along with us to COP16, that could be a Game Changer for our ongoing efforts to restore & protect coastal ecosystems — as well as all the Biodiversity that calls those ecosystems home ! To find out more — surf on over to www.BiodiversityGame.org to see the newest game in town for restoring ocean health ! 🌊