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The results are in from the fourth Phang Nga Coastal Clean Up Challenge: 690 registered volunteers spread across six Khao Lak beaches on 5 October and weighed in 1,868.2 kilogrammes of waste — the biggest edition yet of a tradition that started with a single beach in 2023.
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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.
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I'm Shrimp Farm 5 in Takua Pa, Phang Nga has become one of Thailand's first farms certified to the new ASC Farm Standard — recycling its water across 11 ponds and producing up to 900 tonnes of whiteleg shrimp a year, with pride rooted in daily care rather than the certificate itself.
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.
Booking.com's 2026 Traveller Review Awards — built on more than 370 million verified guest reviews — ranked Phang Nga the 7th Most Welcoming Region on Earth, the only one in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Here's the everyday coastal warmth behind the number.
On 7 September 2026, more than 1,000 hoteliers, scientists, farmers and neighbours gathered at Angsana Laguna Phuket for the ninth PHIST — and agreed that caring for the Andaman coast is a job for the whole village, measured in turtles, pineapples and honest numbers.
At Phuket Provincial Hall on September 8, officials, businesses and community groups reviewed a draft 2026–2050 roadmap of 19 measures — from clean energy and electric vehicles to greener markets — aiming to cut more than 3.2 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent and reach net-zero by 2050.
A new national campaign has chosen the Phuket–Phang Nga coast as a pilot route for meetings-with-adventure travel — and the stars are village mangrove tunnels, GI pineapples, a 'Jurassic World' filming island and one very happy elephant.
A Phang Nga village of 500 people whose mangrove forest absorbed the 2004 tsunami now teaches mangrove co-management to visiting communities — including 20 representatives from Koh Panyee in February 2026.
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.
Thailand's new 10+10 MICE Adventure campaign is putting kayaks, mud crabs, GI pineapples and elephant baths on the official business-travel agenda — and routing the income to village hands along Phang Nga Bay.
Drawn from more than 370 million verified guest reviews, Booking.com's Traveller Review Awards 2026 have named Phang Nga one of Earth's ten Most Welcoming Regions — a ranking earned by everyday coastal hospitality, one small kindness at a time.
A week of projection mapping, Khon, jazz, and old-town architecture is giving Phuket’s Baba-Peranakan heritage a bright new evening stage from 23–29 August 2026.
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