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Kata Rocks ends the use of plastic straws

Kata Rocks ends the use of plastic straws

Our Jungle Camp - Thai youngsters turn environmentalists

Our Jungle Camp - Thai youngsters turn environmentalists

Amari Phuket received Wastewater Treatment Award 2018

Amari Phuket received Wastewater Treatment Award 2018

The Nai Harn Phuket - Award for effective water management

The Nai Harn Phuket - Award for effective water management

Keep the Pineapple Eyes going

Keep the Pineapple Eyes going

A Whiter Shade of Pale

A Whiter Shade of Pale
Kata Rocks ends the use of plastic straws
Kata Rocks ends the use of plastic straws
Friday 21 September 2018, 05:22PM
Kata Rocks has launched its new sustainability and social impact initiative as it moves to eliminate single-use plastics in the luxury resort starting from 1 September and reach its broader goal within one year.
Our Jungle Camp - Thai youngsters turn environmentalists
Our Jungle Camp - Thai youngsters turn environmentalists
Monday 3 September 2018, 09:00AM
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Thailand ranked sixth overall in the global league table of plastic polluters... that’s not pro-rated to population. Thailand is in fact the twentieth most populated country on earth, so that makesThailand’s populace world-class polluters. They pollute far above their numbers, they throw away more garbage per person than almost any other nation.
Amari Phuket received Wastewater Treatment Award 2018
Amari Phuket received Wastewater Treatment Award 2018
Friday 31 August 2018, 11:00AM
Amari Phuket’s Engineering Director, Mr. Watcharaphon Ketmangmi received the Wastewater Treatment Award 2018 from Phuket Vice Governor, Mr. Thavornwat Kongkaew.
The Nai Harn Phuket - Award for effective water management
The Nai Harn Phuket - Award for effective water management
Thursday 30 August 2018, 10:00AM
The Nai Harn has received a Best Water Treatment Management award from Thailand’s Regional Environment office in Phuket.
A Whiter Shade of Pale
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Sunday 26 August 2018, 09:00AM
White has so many associations – positively, it intimates innocence and purity; adversely, coldness and sterility. In Thailand, judging by the dominance of white in floral garlands, it is often identified with good fortune.
Keep the Pineapple Eyes going
Keep the Pineapple Eyes going
Saturday 25 August 2018, 10:00AM
A Letter to the Editor this week from a reader who is part of the vital community network Pineapple Eyes, which serves as a watchdog on all forms of pollution on the island, with a clear request for our incoming Governor, Pakkapong Tawipat.
Feeling lucky, Plant? Make your day with the dahlia.
Feeling lucky, Plant? Make your day with the dahlia.
Sunday 29 July 2018, 09:00AM
Thais are seriously superstitious. There are lucky days when big decisions must be taken, and unlucky days when everything must be put on hold. Lotteries are a national obsession. Ghostly, pale-faced presences haunt every soap opera, bringing misfortune to those who fall foul of their gaze. Good or bad karma are part and parcel of quotidian experience.
Coastal Marine Conservation. Is the tide finally a changin’?
Coastal Marine Conservation. Is the tide finally a changin’?
Friday 27 July 2018, 09:00AM
On Thursday, July 19 a huge wave of plastic washed up on the shoreline of the Dominican Republic covering the entire beach at Playa Montesinos. As a result, more than 30 tons of plastic waste was collected from the area.
Millions of baby crabs released into Phuket mangroves
Millions of baby crabs released into Phuket mangroves
Monday 23 July 2018, 12:52PM
PHUKET: In a bid to help the local ecosystems replenish to health levels, Phuket Governor Norraphat Plodthong on Friday (July 20) led an event in Mai Kho to release millions of baby crabs into the mangroves.
Plastic…not so fantastic
Plastic…not so fantastic
Sunday 22 July 2018, 09:00AM
It’s the worst enemy of environmental campaigners, but people around the world use mountains of plastic every day and business is booming for manufacturers.
Phuket hotels team up with US Embassy to eliminate single-use plastics
Phuket hotels team up with US Embassy to eliminate single-use plastics
Tuesday 10 July 2018, 05:19PM
PHUKET: The Phuket Hotels Association has joined forces with the US Embassy Science Fellowship (ESF) Program to tackle the critical issue of waste management in Phuket, with the aim of eliminating single-use plastics at the island’s hotels.
Untangling the complex and world-wide botanical web
Untangling the complex and world-wide botanical web
Sunday 1 July 2018, 02:00PM
Because the climate here in Thailand is so conducive to growth, we tend to assume that most ornamental plants in our tropic gardens originated in Thailand or at least Southeast Asia. Not true. Sometimes by happenstance, mostly by design, perhaps our flora has fetched up here from other corners of the globe.
Phuket Gardening: Going for gold with Allamandas
Phuket Gardening: Going for gold with Allamandas
Saturday 9 June 2018, 02:00PM
We are well into the dry season in Phuket and all the flowering shrubs are showing off their wares. As I look out from my study, I can see a mass of golden blooms festooning the front wall of the garden.
Laguna Phuket’s “Greening Community” plants 3,000 trees in one day
Laguna Phuket’s “Greening Community” plants 3,000 trees in one day
Friday 1 June 2018, 09:33AM
Last Friday May 25, premier destination resort Laguna Phuket marked the 12th year of its “Greening Community” initiative by planting 3,000 mangrove saplings at Baan Thasak Village in Pa Khlok, a sub-district in Thalang area of Phuket.
Global warming may have 'devastating' effects on rice: study
Global warming may have 'devastating' effects on rice: study
Thursday 24 May 2018, 09:35AM
As carbon dioxide rises due to the burning of fossil fuels, rice will lose some of its protein and vitamin content, putting millions of people at risk of malnutrition, scientists warned on Wednesday (May 23).
Tropical islands far from deserted
Tropical islands far from deserted
Sunday 20 May 2018, 10:00AM
Hordes of tourists clamber across the white sand with selfie sticks as Thai park rangers wade into turquoise waters to direct boats charging into the cliff-ringed cove.
State chews over plastic bag levy
State chews over plastic bag levy
Monday 14 May 2018, 11:04AM
The government is considering a levy on shopping bags to reduce plastic consumption and pollution, says a source at the Finance Ministry.
Green Thoughts: Tales from the undergrowth
Green Thoughts: Tales from the undergrowth
Sunday 22 April 2018, 01:00PM
Over eons, tropical plants have learnt how to cope with a range of conditions. It is worth noting these strategies. Wherever possible, I like to try and replicate the ways and wherefores of Mother Nature. For example in tropical rainforests, and there were hectares of pristine jungle in Phuket once upon a time, there are distinct micro-climates: all the way up from the understorey level where ground-hugging, moisture-loving and sun-deprived plants clamber amid the organic detritus of leaves and humus, to the canopy where the loftiest trees are bathed in ultra-violet light and the direct caress of rain. There are natural layers in between these domains, but tropical fauna, like tropical flora, find them less important: most creatures are adapted to inhabit either the canopy (monkeys, birds) or the forest floor (deer, shrews, snakes).
Unesco dedicates huge Satun area as ‘Global Geopark’
Unesco dedicates huge Satun area as ‘Global Geopark’
Wednesday 18 April 2018, 07:47PM
SATUN: Unesco has dedicated a huge area of Satun province, south of Phuket on the Andaman coast, as a “Global Geopark”. The Geopark covers four districts – Thungwa, La-ngu, Manang and part of Muang Satun – and includes two national parks and one wildlife sanctuary.
Thailand's monkeys use tools to crack nuts, shuck oysters
Thailand's monkeys use tools to crack nuts, shuck oysters
Monday 26 March 2018, 09:00AM
Wild macaque monkeys have learned to use tools to crack open nuts and even shuck oysters, researchers said last Wednesday (Mar 21), identifying a rare skill-set long thought to be the exclusive party trick of humans and chimps. Scientists from Britain and Thailand, where the native long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) feeds on sea almonds, oil palm nuts and the occasional bivalve, observed the monkeys using stones for two distinct tasks. Larger rocks, some weighing up to two kilograms, were used as a hammer to smash open nuts, while sharper stones formed knife-like levers to jimmy open prey such as oysters. Before the study, conducted on Thailand's Piak Nam Yai island, it was thought that only chimpanzees and bearded capuchins used stones to break open food in the wild. Professor Tomos Proffitt, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, who wrote the study, said it could have wide relevance to primate studies. "It contributes to our increasing understanding that not only apes and humans use tools for different tasks," he told AFP. "We should view macaques as highly intelligent problem solvers, in the same way that chimpanzees, capuchin monkeys are and early humans were also." Scientists in Brazil in 2016 observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys hammering away at stones to create rough flakes similar to the tools first used by human forerunners. But one of the macaques' food sources, the oil palm, was only introduced to their island in the past few decades, meaning that the monkeys have learned to use tools to access its fruit for food extremely quickly, evolutionarily speaking. "What we see is that they are adapting this stone tool use to other food sources away from the coast," Proffitt said. "In many cases of primate tool use these behaviours are learnt by youngsters through many years of observation and is not something that is genetically coded into them." The study was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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