Transforming passion into protection
Surfriders focus is 100% on protecting and preserving our ocean, beaches & waves.
Surfriders focus is 100% on protecting and preserving our ocean, beaches & waves.
The Surfrider Foundation has a proven model for success—a playbook and a team—that transforms passion into protection. We continue to leverage that model within our network of chapters and clubs. We ensure beaches are accessible, keep our water clean, protect our ocean, preserve our coasts and keep plastic from polluting our waterways.
Why Surfrider?Campaigns define us as an organization. It’s how we protect our special coastal places, ensure our ocean is healthy and wild, keep pollution out of the water and make sure every beach is clean and accessible for all to enjoy. Each and every campaign has a defined beginning, middle and end.
Martin's Beach is a picturesque pocket beach just south of Half Moon Bay. It had long been visited by the public until soon after it was sold in 2008 to a then-anonymous owner for $32.5 million. Not long after the property changed hands, the billboard was painted over and a keycard gate was closed permanently to the public.
Our coastlines are under siege from the impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels and more powerful storms are shrinking our beaches and diminishing the public’s ability to enjoy these special places. Pollution from fossil fuels is altering ocean chemistry and threatening marine life and whole ecosystems.
Surfrider represents coastal recreation users in ocean planning efforts in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Washington State. Our goal is to protect outstanding ocean and coastal places before they become threatened by development.
We are witnessing the largest assault on our ocean in American history. The Trump Administration plans to open the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic to new offshore oil drilling — a dirty and destructive business that will harm our ocean and coastal communities. New drilling includes deafening seismic blasts during oil exploration that will harm and even kill innocent marine wildlife like whales and dolphins.
Protect clean water and the health of beachgoers with proper implementation of the Clean Water Act and adequate funding for the EPA
From testing our coastal waters to ensuring that runoff stays in your garden to certifying ocean friendly restaurants, Surfrider's programs help ensure that our marine environments are protected on many different levels.
Learn more about our programsWe have the playbook and the team to create victories for our coasts. Through its history, Surfrider has a proven model of success and leverages that blueprint with our network.
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You love your ocean, your beach, your wave. This is your opportunity to put your money, time and energy where your heart is and support the Surfrider Foundation’s passionate volunteers as they work to protect 100% of our coasts.
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