Save The Waves

Save The Waves Coalition (STW) is an international nonprofit that works in coalition with diverse organizations dedicated to protecting surf ecosystems. They create protected areas through their flagship World Surfing Reserve program and Surf Protected Area Networks.

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This international Coalition is a network of stewardship communities at World Surfing Reserves, local surfer-based organizations on Endangered Waves campaigns, and academics and students for Surfonomics studies. They have a network of passionate surf ambassadors, app users, event attendees, donors and much more.

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World Surfing Reserves (WSR) is a program launched in 2009 by the non-governmental organization Save the Waves Coalition. The idea to protect surf spots came to one of the cofounders of the program, the Australian Brad Farmer, during the 1990s, convinced that those protected areas should be «places of intrinsic environmental, heritage, sporting and cultural value to a nation». In 2005, he cofounded the National Surfing Reserve with Andrew Short. After four years of naming surf spots in Australia, Farmer and Short partnered with the NGO Save the Waves Coalition and launched the World Surfing Reserves to go international with their protection program. It was officially launched at the Value of Waves Roundtable held in Half Moon Bay, California, USA.

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Save the Waves Coalition also created a Google Earth WSR plug-in that allows organizations and individuals to view nominated sites around the world. The plug-in allows users to learn about a nominated wave’s history, location, environmental characteristics and surf culture.