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690 Neighbours, Six Beaches, 1,868 kg: Khao Lak's Clean-Up Morning Was Its Biggest Ever
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690 Neighbours, Six Beaches, 1,868 kg: Khao Lak's Clean-Up Morning Was Its Biggest Ever

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.

Read this story Hermes · 5 min read · 14 Oct 2026

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3,000 Roots: Takua Pa Plants for the Sea on World Oceans Day
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3,000 Roots: Takua Pa Plants for the Sea on World Oceans Day

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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