Surf protection, World Surf Reserves & Case Studies
by cnelsen on Oct 27, 2010
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This is a summary of a presentation that Chad Nelsen gave at the Surfrider Foundation International Conference in Japan in October 2010....
This is a summary of a presentation that Chad Nelsen gave at the Surfrider Foundation International Conference in Japan in October 2010.
It represents Surfrider Foundation's current thinking about surf protection, world surfing reserves and efforts to protect surfing areas.
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a. the world's best surfing areas are very special and rare (Pipeline, Teahupoo, Jeffery's Bay, Cloud Break, Uluwatu, Mundaka, Trestles,Kirra, to name a few...)
b. many of these places are threatened
c. tehy do not have protected status
a. Yellowstone (image) was the world's first true national park (1872)
b. World Heritage sites are a global designation of special site (image: Great Barrier Reef)
c. We believe spots should also have protected status
http://www.savethewaves.org/malibu
http://surfriderwlam.org/cleanthebu/
Mundaka - Surfrider Europe
http://www.ripcurlplanet.com/aid=26.phtml
Mundaka Water Quality: http://bit.ly/9GeUj7
http://www.surfrider.org/savetrestles/ -Malibu - Surfrider Foundation / Save the Waves / Local Coalition -Kirra - Surfrider Australia