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Every sea turtle wears a one-of-a-kind face. In just one year, Khao Lak divers and Andaman Turtle Watch turned 451 holiday snapshots into a living ID database of 92 named turtles — and you can join the next chapter on 20–26 October 2026.
For thirty years, volunteers and villagers on Phang Nga's Koh Phra Thong have walked one of Thailand's longest wild beaches each dawn, reading turtle tracks in the sand — and the 2024–25 season brought their reward: more nests than the year before.
For 55 years the town of Thai Mueang in Phang Nga has thrown a ten-day beach festival for sea turtles — donations of 10,000 baht per release, rangers guarding nests with infrared cameras, and a comeback two decades in the making. The next party starts 1 March 2027.
On Thai Mueang Beach, rangers, villagers and hotels guard one of Earth's rarest nests. Discover how the Phang Nga coast carries leatherback hatchlings to the sea — and how you can help.
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 15 June 2026, Thailand's government announced a sweeping plan to clear illegal encroachments from Sirinat National Park's beaches — reclaiming tidal heritage for the coastal communities who built their lives along Phuket's northwest shore.
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.
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