Tagged
21 stories tagged Marine Conservation
In a Phang Nga fishing village where three canals meet, local fishers run a community crab bank—collecting egg-bearing crabs, protecting them until they spawn, and returning new generations to the mangroves that sustain them all.
On June 19, park rangers at Khao Lampi–Hat Thai Mueang spotted a record-breaking return: leatherback sea turtle Mae Namo dragging herself ashore for a sixth nest of the season — a feat that rewrites what we thought possible on this stretch of Phang Nga coast.
Dozens of Chelonia mydas hatchlings entered the Andaman Sea at Sirinat National Park on June 14, part of a community Big Cleaning Day timed just before World Sea Turtle Day — and a reminder of what this quiet northern stretch of Phuket still protects.
On a June night in Phang Nga, a leatherback sea turtle nicknamed Mae Namo laid her sixth nest of the 2026 season — 123 eggs guarded by park rangers and relocated to a hatchery. For Thailand's rarest nesting sea turtle, six clutches from one female is a quiet signal of recovery.
Each April, the Andaman Sea falls quiet by law — and for Phang Nga's fishing families on Koh Yao Noi, the three months before the July reopening are both a challenge and a rhythm as old as the monsoon itself.
Ko Similan's Donald Duck Bay landed at number 10 on the World's 50 Best Beaches 2026 list. It is also shut to visitors under Mu Ko Similan National Park's annual monsoon closure — and that quiet is exactly the point.
On June 8, 2026, three thousand mangrove seedlings went into the tidal mud at Takua Pa — a small act with consequences that ripple outward across the entire Phang Nga coastline.
On 19 June 2026, forest officers posted a formal demolition notice at Nui Beach, ordering removal of 39 illegal structures from protected National Reserved Forest land by 9 July — the latest step in an eight-year effort to restore public access to one of Phuket's most beloved coves.
On the night of June 19, rangers at Khao Lampi–Hat Thai Mueang National Park watched through a drone feed as a leatherback sea turtle — a familiar face they call Mae Namo — pulled herself ashore to lay her sixth nest of the season.
Choose what we may store on your device. You can change this at any time from the footer.
Necessary
Sign-in, cart, checkout and security. These are required for the site to work and cannot be switched off.
Analytics
Anonymous statistics on which pages and pieces are viewed, so we can improve the shop and the exhibition pages.
Functional
Embedded Google Maps on the Visit and Home pages. Google receives your IP address and may set its own cookies.
