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Special Edition Hermès beach towel
Designed by Cathy Latham Audibert to benefit the Santa Aguila Foundation
An Hermès beach towel for the Santa Aguila Foundation. Sand, surf and sea make coastal beaches the most popular natural attractions on the planet. However, the beauty of our coastlines and the survival of their ecosystems are sadly under threat. Overdevelopment, poor coastal management, pollution, which destroys a major source of food, and continued human interference, including beach-sand mining and seawall constructions, endanger coastlines and beaches everywhere. Sea level rise, accelerated erosion and substantial loss of infrastructure due to global warming will have an impact on every living being, but it is our children and future generations that will be most affected.
The mission of the Santa Aguila Foundation is to increase awareness, mobilize individuals to address the unsustainable practices that are currently harming the world’s beaches and coastlines, inform and educate children about the scientic aspects of coastlines and natural beaches, enable them to protect their coastal environment, and advocate sensible, science-based government policies and regulations to protect and preserve coastlines and beaches around the world.
If you would like to support the Santa Aguila Foundation, you can purchase it this summer in select Hermès stores in the United States and Europe, or online atHermès.com.
Donations are needed to continue our work that has already begun:
Stearn’s Wharf, Santa Barbara, CA
Photo: Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
- The publishing of a first of it’s kind educational book on world beaches;
- The costs of a full-time scientist to perform research, prepare reports and provide expertise to the various projects of the Foundation;
- The production of documentary movies with the aim to inform and educate global audiences on key beach issues from around the world;
- The maintenance of this portal website to serve as the central hub of the Foundation’s activities, and to federate the efforts of many local communities associated with the protection of beaches around the world;
- The formation of partnerships with various influental environmental communities;
- A global review of the extent of beach sand mining worldwide.
Any donations will be used for specific projects. Every year, we will publish an activity report detailing our progress, including some of the anticipated milestones.
We hope that you can help us in this very important work. We feel that tangible progress can be made within a reasonable short time frame and we can gather sufficient resolve to affect change.
All contributions are tax deductible.
Please make checks payable to: Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
Mailing address:
Western Carolina University
Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
c/o Santa Aguila Foundation
Cullowhee, North Carolina, 28723
Please contact us if you have specific questions!
