EnglishOn July 14th the International Surfing Association World Masters Surfing Championship opened on Playa Colorado, Nicaragua, bringing the world’s best surfers, surfing fans, and international media to the region where we work.
Surfwire described Playa Colorado as “a place where the jungle met the sand and the Howler Monkeys offered early-morning wake-up calls” giving the international visitors “a first-hand opportunity to see and be a part of a surf culture on the rise.”
Gold Medal Team Hawaii knows a thing or two about surf culture, having invented the sport and shared it with the world. “I’m really stoked for the Hawaiian team,” said women’s gold medalist Rochelle Ballard. “This whole event has been about that, sharing our Aloha and our passion…I love that spirit of sharing; it’s really inspiring.”
Hawaii deserves congratulations for their medals and for their work in protecting the Hawaiian subpopulation of the green sea turtle or honu, whose IUCN Red List status was updated this month to species of least concern.
The IUCN’s (International Union for Conservation of Nature) new honu status is the result of decades of research and conservation in Hawaii that “allowed the population to recover, and gives hope to the recovery of depleted marine turtle populations in other parts of the world.”
To everyone in the international surfing community, and especially to our friends in Hawaii, felicidades, congratulations, gracias, thank you, and mahalo!