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Phuket Pets: The Thai Ridgeback

PHUKET: The Thai Ridgeback is an old breed, which can be seen in Thai documents written more than 350 years ago. It was mainly used for hunting in the eastern parts of the Kingdom.

Australian woman keeps close eye on the Phuket environment

PHUKET: While many local expatriates sit around and complain about how the environment is worsening, while also lamenting what one person can do against a tide of indifference, Debra Mierczak, the ‘leafleting lady’ who was featured in the March 29 edition of The Phuket News, has a lot to be proud of.

Pullman Phuket Arcadia 'Hug a Tree' project

PHUKET: To celebrate the first birthday of Accor’s PLANET 21 project “Hug a Tree” on April 21, Pullman Phuket Arcadia’s Creators designed and made three Miss Mango Tree dresses using fallen leaves from local mango trees to create awareness for rejuvenating our planet.

New Blue List highlights Thailand’s shark fin free hotels

Phuket Life / Environment

Thursday 25 April 2013, 12:00PM

BANGKOK: As part of global Earth Day initiatives, Thai celebrities, students, conservationists, and leading hospitality industry representatives gathered to launch a Blue List promoting hotels in Thailand that are 100 per cent shark fin free.

Phuket Environment: Composting is easier than you think

Phuket Life / Environment

Thursday 18 April 2013, 10:32AM

PHUKET: If you’ve ever thrown a banana peel in the yard or buried a pet, you’ve already started composting, which is actually nothing more than letting things decay the natural way.

Thailand’s renewable energy possibilities

Phuket Life / Environment

Thursday 11 April 2013, 09:27AM

PHUKET: Among the expat community in Phuket there is a growing sense of frustration with regards to the severe environmental issues on the island.

Phuket: JW Marriot release 100 turtles for charity

Phuket Life / Environment

Friday 5 April 2013, 11:53AM

PHUKET: One hundred turtles were released as part of the 4th Mai Khao Turtle Release event, hosted at the JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa on March 29.

Phuket: Magic eyes that no longer see

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 1 April 2013, 09:30AM

PHUKET: A curious thing happened during last month’s SEEK meeting.

Tune Hotels launch community beautification project across Thailand

Phuket Life / Environment

Friday 29 March 2013, 09:43AM

PHUKET: Tune Hotels has launched a regional community project to beautify the neighbourhoods in which they operate.

Phuket Green groups kick trash to the kerb

Phuket Life / Environment

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:51PM

PHUKET: It’s been a long, hard and painfully-problematic slog, but it looks like Phuket will finally have roadside recycling stations from as early as the end of next month.

Phuket: The way to save Racha Yai Island

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 25 March 2013, 12:32PM

PHUKET: The unfortunate plight of Racha Yai island has been in many media outlets – both Thai and English – of late. The stories are about its many environmental issues and problems, including piles of garbage, polluted water, land encroachment and reef damage.

Phuket prepares to mark Earth Hour 2013

Phuket Life / Environment

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 10:32AM

PHUKET: At 8.30pm on Saturday 23 March 2013, Earth Hour will celebrate a worldwide commitment to ongoing change for the betterment of the one thing that unites us all – the planet.

There’s no cost to compost in Phuket

Phuket Life / Environment

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 10:23AM

PHUKET: I have a compost heap and I’ve been thinking about what I have to do in order to compost for our house. The more I think about it, the more I realise most people living here won’t do it.

Taiwan turns plastic junk into blankets, dolls

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 11 March 2013, 12:49PM

TAIPEI: Some 40 people stand ankle-deep in used plastic bottles in the yard of a recycling station in Taipei, stamping them flat in the first step of a process that will transform the junk into usable goods.

Freeland says 'enough is enough' to ivory trade

Phuket Life / Environment

Thursday 7 March 2013, 10:56AM

BANGKOK: “Enough is enough. Ivory trade and conservation are incompatible” says former Chair of the CITES Standing Committee which implemented ivory sales in 1999

Phuket: Govt draws the line on shark, manta ray listing

Phuket Life / Environment

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 11:26AM

BANGKOK: The Department of Fisheries is unhappy with a proposal by the United States and South American nations to put sharks and manta rays on Cites's protection list to control international trade of the fish species.

Phuket: Release-a-turtle tickets raise cash for conservation

Phuket Life / Environment

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 04:25PM

PHUKET: More than B200,000 was raised at a Sunset Turtle Release Event held at the XANA Beach Club on February 8.

Phuket: Enough talk, more action

Phuket Life / Environment

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 03:21PM

PHUKET: Part shock tactic, part stark warning, environmental organisation SEEK has decided upon artwork for its manifesto of 26 indicators designed to rescue the island – five dystopian images of a Phuket beset with pollution, ruin and devastation. An island in peril, circa 20 years hence.

Phuket: Campaign launched for ‘Fin Free Thailand’

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 18 February 2013, 04:03PM

BANGKOK: Thai environmental groups, celebrities, students, prominent chefs and businesses launched a new nationwide campaign to stop the sale and consumption of shark fin on Februray 10.

Swissotel Le Concorde goes 'Fin Free'

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 18 February 2013, 03:25PM

BANGKOK: Today, Fin Free Thailand is pleased to announce that five-star hotel, Swissotel Le Concorde Bangkok, has signed the Fin Free pledge and publicly stated a new policy completely banning the serving and sale of shark fin.

Phuket divers: We belong to the sea

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 11 February 2013, 11:15AM

PHUKET: In a double bid to clean the waters of Patong and raise awareness of the damaging shark finning trade, Patong-based Scuba Cat Diving company is hosting a ‘Dive Against Debris’ and ‘Get Swimming to End Shark Finning’ (Finathon) event on February 16, around Paradise Reef nearby Patong.

Finding the right direction for Phuket

Phuket Life / Environment

Friday 8 February 2013, 09:21AM

PHUKET: For the coming year, SEEK will be gathering information on system status and trying to complete a Phuket Sustainability Report, which will be used as a guideline for further planning, actions and initiatives to help develop a more sustainable Phuket.

Saving all of Phuket’s marine life

Phuket Life / Environment

Monday 28 January 2013, 09:00AM

PHUKET: Judging by the seemingly constant string of turtle release programmes hosted by hotels, resorts and charities on the island, one may be easily forgiven for thinking that the cute, high-profile sea creatures are the only animals in peril in the waters around Phuket.

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