Ocean biodiversity along Canada’s three coasts is increasingly at risk, yet significant gaps remain in the actionable data, cross-sector relationships, and coordinated science–policy pathways required to guide effective conservation and restoration. Coastal blue carbon ecosystems — including seagrass meadows, salt marshes, and kelp forests — provide critical biodiversity habitat, climate mitigation, and coastal protection benefits. However, fragmented governance, uneven data coverage, and limited mechanisms for sustained knowledge exchange have constrained their integration into strategic planning, policy, and stewardship action.

In response, WWF-Canada and cross-sector partners have co-designed a national Coastal Habitats Learning & Knowledge Hub to strengthen pathways from knowledge to action. The Hub was developed to build durable relationships between knowledge holders (including Indigenous knowledge holders, scientists, practitioners, and community experts) and knowledge users (decision-makers across jurisdictions), positioning shared knowledge as central to evidence-based management, restoration, and protection efforts.