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March 12, 2021 | Surfing Surfing is a free recreational outdoor activity with approximately 35 million participants worldwide. In search of perfect waves, surfers travel all around the world and engage with thousands of coastal communities all-year-round. The concept of surf economics - also known as surfonomics - has been used by environmental, surf-related non-governmental organizations (NGO) like Save The Waves Coalition and Surfrider Foundation to evaluate economic benefits derived from sur...

Women lead the way in the world’s next great surf spot Lacy Morris © Photograph by Matias Donoso People surfing waves on Puertecillo beach near Pichilemu I’m standing with my surfboard on the beach in Pichilemu, Chile. It’s January—the height of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer—the sun is out, and there’s a near-constant breeze rolling in off the Pacific Ocean. A series of black-sand coves frame the main attraction in these parts: Punta de Lobos, a left-hand poi...

Protect the Maldives! Save The Waves Coalition and partners have launched an international campaign to #SaveOurWavesMaldives Save The Waves and international partners are supporting local surfers and grassroots organizations in the Maldives to protect waves under immediate threat from development and infrastructure projects that are compromising some of the Maldives’ most precious surf spots. Many of the country’s numerous and pristine surf ecosystems have been affected or outright destro...