The Noosa National Surfing Reserve has launched a new campaign to become the tenth World Surfing Reserve, starting with a sustainability partnership with the coming Laguna Real Estate Noosa Festival of Surfing.
With sustainability of surfing resources being a major plank in the World Surfing Reserve’s agenda, the festival partnership will range from “Sustainability Friday” workshops on sustainable surfboards led by wooden board guru Tom Wegener to eco initiatives such as provision of drinking water and re-usable bottles.
A panel discussion will address Noosa’s parking and traffic issues during major swell events, and special guest Nick Mucha from World Surfing Reserves and Save The Waves Coalition in California will talk about how World Reserve status is helping preserve beach environments around the world.
Noosa National Surfing Reserve chairman and Noosa Today columnist Phil Jarratt said the partnership would give the public an opportunity to understand how Noosa would benefit from World Surfing Reserve status, with an information station in place throughout the festival.
Australia currently has two World Surfing Reserves – Manly/Freshwater, dedicated in 2012, and Gold Coast, dedicated in 2015.
World Surfing Reserves are places of intrinsic environmental, heritage, sporting and cultural value.
The concept is for all people to be able to enjoy, understand and protect special coastal environments of universal value to the surfing world.
National and World Surfing Reserves do not attempt to exclude any user group.
