14.10.2023 - On the day the Ericeira World Surfing Reserve turns 12 years old the Local Stewardship Council reinforced their commitment with Ericeira’s natural HABITAT RESTORATION
Climate change, pollution, overfishing, water quality and biodiversity degradation pose a threat to the marine habitats belonging to our coastal region.
For the surfing community the waves and their biodiversity are essential to the wellbeing of the local community and natural habitats but also for the surfing business ecosystem and territory sustainability providing healthier life styles, food, jobs, recreation and natural beauty.
In the last Global Wave Conference organised by The Surfrider Foundation with the support of Fórum Oceano and Save The Waves Coalition some of those topics were discussed together by the world's main environmental Non-Governmental Organisations, academics, oceanographers, environmentalists, activists, surfers, politicians, surf industry, invluding coastal communities.
To address those challenges, the EWSR Local Stewardship Council constituted by the 4 EWSR guardians Câmara Municipal de Mafra, Ericeira Surf Clube, SOS Salvem o Surf and Associação dos Amigos da Baía dos Coxos signed a Memorandum of Understanding, committing to put in a next level the objectives established in the 2017 RMSE Management Plan (https://lnkd.in/dE335G6c) and announced new plans for permanently protecting Ericeira coastline including improve the quality of water (Over 7 million euros slated for a new sewage treatment system) and restore native habitats (15 hectares of coastal property acquired by Câmara Municipal de Mafra for restoration and permanent preservation).
One of the most strategic questions the Innovation & Sustainability Department of Ericeira Surf Clube have in hands is making a technical study how to FUNDING this new flagship and their initiatives specially from the surfing sport community and business ecosystem, as well as how it will be aligned the new plan with the “new protected marine area of community interest” that will merge the coastal territories of Cascais, Sintra and Mafra municipalities which represents 66 km of coastline.
In the ESC perspective, funding is also necessary to support local initiatives promoted by civic movements and citizens participation because they made part of the solution in this collective objective in ligne with Trent Hodges vision and wrote in the article “It is clear from this success that protecting surf ecosystems requires the commitment and dedication of elected government as well as civil society organizations for large scale ecosystem conservation to be durable.”
TOGETHER for an Ericeira World Surfing Reserve more inclusive and sustainable!!!
Source: Save The Waves Coalition
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🤙🏾 thank you … always a journey. But very much looking forward to more adoption away from neoprene.