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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.
In Phang Nga's Thap Put District, a village of oyster farmers has turned tidal abundance into handcrafted livelihoods — and on June 17, 2026, a new global fund designated the entire Lower Andaman Coast as a priority for exactly this kind of renewal.
On the evening of 10 June 2026, heavy rains overwhelmed waterways across four sub-districts in Phang Nga — and within hours, neighbors, volunteers, and local officials had transformed a community hall into a haven for 103 households.
For three months, the larger fishing vessels of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi and Trang have sat quiet in harbour as the Andaman Sea completes its annual spawning season. On June 30, the ban lifts — and coastal communities are preparing to head back out.
On the morning of 8 June 2026, volunteers gathered at the Mangrove Forest Resource Conservation Center No. 10 in Takua Pa, Phang Nga, to press 3,000 mangrove seedlings into the tidal mud — a quiet, deliberate act of renewal for the coast that feeds them.
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