COALITION RESOURCES
Save The Waves has a large library of reports, studies and info booklets – all are available to view and download below. Please use these resources to read more about STW, learn about surf conservation and use the tools to help protect your surf ecosystem!
If you can’t find the information you’re looking for, please contact us at info@savethewaves.org.
GENERAL STW INFORMATION
Frequently Asked Questions
Save The Waves Coalition (STW) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting surf ecosystems around the world.
STW was launched in 2003.
To protect surf ecosystems across the globe.
A world where surf ecosystems are valued and where surfing provides a proactive vehicle for long-term coastal conservation.
To protect 1,000 waves by 2030.
A surf ecosystem includes more than just a wave — it encompasses the interconnection between the land, sea, biodiversity, and local communities that depend on it.
Safeguarding these areas protects marine biodiversity, enhances coastal resilience, supports local livelihoods, and promotes community well-being. If you protect the waves, then you protect the place. If you protect the place, you protect the wave.
The organization believes that legal protection, active stewardship, and a mobilized community together lead to healthy and protected surf ecosystems. We summarize this as: Protect, Steward, Defend.
Power Of The Coalition
Why do we do this work? An inspiring message from members of our community and Coalition.
To enjoy the places where we play.
To give back to the sport that has given so much happiness.
To preserve livelihoods and communities.
To offer future generations a chance to experience what we have.
To preserve our oceans and waves. To save our home planet.
Will you do your part to protect the places we all love?
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
REPORTS AND STUDIES
FEATURED REPORTS
Surf Break Vulnerability Assessment, Santa Cruz
The first ever integration of Surfonomics with the analysis of sea level rise projections, this report finds the value in a wave and the value to be lost due to climate change. Recommendations on adaptation, accessibility and access are built into the official report.
Surf Protected Areas: A Process Guide For Coordinators
What is a Surf Protected Area? What are the 6 crucial steps to this program? Where are the current SPA project locations?
The most comprehensive playbook on case studies and best practices for surf protected areas.
Surfonomics
REGIONAL PROFILES AND SURF CONSERVATION INDICES
What are 'Surf Protected Areas'? How do they work?
We break down what it means to legally protect a surf break and the comprehensive strategies used by communities worldwide to preserve their surfing resources.
The outline and analysis below is a Coalition collaboration with Save The Waves, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA) and Conservamos For Naturaleza.
CONTACT
Send Us A Direct Message
Use our quick submission form to contact us at info@savethewaves.org
contact info
info@savethewaves.org
Mailing Address
Save The Waves Coalition
849 Almar Avenue, Suite C #163
Santa Cruz, CA
95060
Phone
tel: +1 831.426.6169
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