04/04/2022
Incredible work towards achieving this guys! 🙌🏼🙏🏻🏄🏻♂️🏄🏻
First in the U.K. to be designated!
Posted • North Devon Announced As 12th World Surfing Reserve |
North Devon has become the 12th location from around the globe to be selected as a World Surfing Reserve, an international designation that recognises and celebrates the area’s outstanding quality surfing beaches and brings together the local community and experts in actions to protect them.
Our focus is to look after the quality of the waves themselves and preserve the ecosystems that produce them. Surf spots should celebrated, recognised and protected in the same way we protect and recognise beautiful national parks like Exmoor.
World Surfing Reserves are a program run by and we are not only their first cold water surfing reserve, but the first in the UK.
North Devon joins an exclusive list of World Surfing Reserves that includes Malibu and Santa Cruz in California, Ericeira in Portugal, the Gold Coast, Manly and Noosa in Australia, Punta de Lobos in Chile, Huanchaco in Peru, Guarda do Embau in Brazil, and Bahia de Todos Santos in Mexico.
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