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Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Hundreds of sea urchins wash ashore Patong Beach! || March 4

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Sustainably Yours: Is Sustainable Capitalism the future?

Sustainably Yours: Is Sustainable Capitalism the future?

Khao Sok National Park named 50th Asean Heritage Park

Khao Sok National Park named 50th Asean Heritage Park

Wetlands: Our answers to water insecurity

Wetlands: Our answers to water insecurity

Green Thoughts: The beauty of floaters with an accent

Green Thoughts: The beauty of floaters with an accent

Painting a brighter future for an endangered species

Painting a brighter future for an endangered species

Sustainably Yours: Preventing the next pandemic

Sustainably Yours: Preventing the next pandemic
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Sustainably Yours: Is Sustainable Capitalism the future?
Sustainably Yours: Is Sustainable Capitalism the future?
Sunday 21 February 2021, 02:00PM
To paraphrase comedian George Carlin, life is all about getting more stuff and wanting to have better stuff than other people’s stuff, but do you ever notice that their stuff is crap and your crap is stuff?
Khao Sok National Park named 50th Asean Heritage Park
Khao Sok National Park named 50th Asean Heritage Park
Thursday 18 February 2021, 03:04PM
Touted as the world’s oldest tropical evergreen forest, Khao Sok National Park, located just north of Phuket, has been declared an Asean Heritage Park (AHP). 
Wetlands: Our answers to water insecurity
Wetlands: Our answers to water insecurity
Tuesday 2 February 2021, 05:52PM
The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity expresses its solidarity with the rest of the world in celebrating World Wetlands Day and highlighting the urgency and need to conserve and protect wetlands ecosystems.
Green Thoughts: The beauty of floaters with an accent
Green Thoughts: The beauty of floaters with an accent
Sunday 31 January 2021, 02:00PM
If the lotus and water lily are likely to be main players in your Thai water-garden, there are others which can perform useful cameo roles. One such performer is the Egyptian papyrus (cyperus papyrus). Every schoolboy knows one fact about this plant: it was used to make the first paper. The second ‘fact’ is not common knowledge – namely that the ‘bulrushes’ in which the infant Moses was hidden, were almost certainly papyrus reeds.
Painting a brighter future for an endangered species
Painting a brighter future for an endangered species
Sunday 31 January 2021, 10:00AM
“Steven Spielberg has a lot to answer for,” German expat Holger Schwab quips when asked why the worldwide perception of sharks is predominantly negative.
Sustainably Yours: Preventing the next pandemic
Sustainably Yours: Preventing the next pandemic
Sunday 24 January 2021, 10:00AM
On January 13, 2020, Thailand had its first reported case of COVID-19 in Bangkok. It was also the first case outside of China, so the pandemic has been with us for about one year. 
Green Thoughts: Lilies – A Rainbow Nation
Green Thoughts: Lilies – A Rainbow Nation
Sunday 20 December 2020, 10:00AM
To expats, the water lily is a familiar and reassuring presence; indeed, there must be few goldfish ponds in Europe or America without a complement of nympheas. If that means they lack the sheer exoticism of the Asian-based lotus, they do possess the advantage of coming in a spectacular range of colours. That characteristic alone makes the water lily among the most popular of all cultivated plants.
Sustainably Yours: Rewilding Thailand
Sustainably Yours: Rewilding Thailand
Sunday 15 November 2020, 10:00AM
In his new Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet BBC Presenter David Attenborough details the impact that humanity has had on nature in his over-50 years of reporting on the environment, and he discusses his hopes and fears for the future. During his lifetime, he notes that the world population has gone from 2.3 billion in 1937 to almost 7.82 billion in 2020, while the percent of the world’s forested land dropped from 66% to just 30%. 
Khao Sok eyed for Asean Heritage Park status
Khao Sok eyed for Asean Heritage Park status
Sunday 8 November 2020, 12:58PM
The stunning Khao Sok National Park north of Phuket is among the national parks being evaluated for being recognised as an Asean Heritage Park.
Green Thoughts: Walking on Water – Lotuses and Lilies
Green Thoughts: Walking on Water – Lotuses and Lilies
Sunday 25 October 2020, 11:00AM
Thailand has a high annual rainfall and Phuket is no exception to this, as anyone who has experienced the summer monsoon can testify. This year has been especially watery with precipitation likely to exceed 100 inches. But despite this abundance, Thais have a special reverence for water and its vital role in life. Expats drenched during  the April water festival of  songkran  quickly  realise that one of the impulses behind this celebration is to cleanse and renew, to herald the onset of the new rains that will bring life to the parched earth.
Phuket Hotels Association launches ‘Phuket Green Day’ initiative to inspire island-wide cleanup
Phuket Hotels Association launches ‘Phuket Green Day’ initiative to inspire island-wide cleanup
Tuesday 20 October 2020, 08:56AM
The Phuket Hotels Association, a non-profit organisation that promotes and protects Thailand’s most visited island destination, is encouraging locals and tourists to value the beauty of Phuket’s world-renowned beaches and surrounding seas through Phuket Green Day, a comprehensive clean-up event on Wednesday morning (Oct  21).
Patong Municipality to hold ‘chilies for plastic bottles’ exchange
Patong Municipality to hold ‘chilies for plastic bottles’ exchange
Monday 14 September 2020, 11:58AM
PHUKET: Patong Municipality’s Environment Division will be handing out chilies in exchange for used plastic bottles at the Roy Rim Lay @Patong event on Patong Beach this Friday (Sept 18).
Sustainably Yours: The Importance of Beach Cleanups
Sustainably Yours: The Importance of Beach Cleanups
Sunday 30 August 2020, 11:00AM
We’ve all done it, walked along the beach frustrated by the deluge of plastic being regurgitated by the ocean during monsoon season. Being an environmentally responsible citizen, you join a beach cleanup, grab a bag and start picking up trash. An hour or two later your section of the beach looks cleaner and you feel good about yourself. Only to come back the next day to find the same spot that you sweated over while cleaning filled with trash again.
TAT holds forum to boost ‘Elephant Care Tourism’
TAT holds forum to boost ‘Elephant Care Tourism’
Monday 24 August 2020, 10:20AM
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is to step up collaboration and communication with Thai government authorities to better monitor the elephant tourism attractions in response to foreign media reports about alleged abuse and mistreatment.
Green Thoughts: Let your personality grow
Green Thoughts: Let your personality grow
Sunday 16 August 2020, 01:30PM
It is a truism that your garden is an expression, an extension of self. In a very literal sense, this is blindingly obvious: you are the person responsible for its design, its maintenance, and for the plants you decide to put in it. When I was an undergraduate, the Professor of Biology, an acknowledged authority on things botanical, spoke on a weekly BBC program called “Gardener’s Question Time”. But in fact his own garden was a neglected wilderness of weeds. Once, when the “Beeb” wanted to interview him in his own space, he did a deal with his neighbour, the Philosophy Professor, who happened to have a splendid garden. So, in all ignorance, they conducted the outside broadcast in the wrong place. No doubt they said very flattering things about his flowers and shrubs.
Sustainably Yours: Let’s clear the air
Sustainably Yours: Let’s clear the air
Sunday 26 July 2020, 02:00PM
While COVID-19 has brought the world economy to a halt it has also brought the unexpected benefit of clean air. The normal white haze of Phuket has been supplanted by beautiful clear blue skies punctuated by stunning sunsets. Although closing the airports to foreigners is not a long-term solution, perhaps there are a few lessons that we can learn to keep the air clean for the future. 
Green Thoughts: Sprouting sun worshippers
Green Thoughts: Sprouting sun worshippers
Sunday 28 June 2020, 02:00PM
As readers familiar with this column will be aware, I often iterate the point, perhaps ad nauseam, that botanical names are worth mastering, since they offer valuable clues to a plant’s characteristics: maybe its place of origin (Japonica), its physical features (odorata), or even its cultural requirements. 
Sustainably Yours: Solving Phuket’s Water Crisis
Sustainably Yours: Solving Phuket’s Water Crisis
Sunday 28 June 2020, 11:00AM
Your body consists of 60% water. You can only survive without it for three days. We use it for food, drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning and washing. Water IS life. We take it for granted in the misguided belief that we will always have enough. Just turn on the tap and it all seems so limitless. But imagine being without it during this global pandemic when we are implored to wash our hands. Such a small thing can mean the difference between life and death.
Government petitioned for urgent aid to help starving elephants
Government petitioned for urgent aid to help starving elephants
Friday 19 June 2020, 12:27AM
BANGKOK: Susan Field, a British citizen residing on Koh Samui, has presented a petition with almost 65,000 signatures to the Thai government asking for urgent financial aid for elephants and their handlers who have received no income since tourists disappeared at the start of COVID-19.
Pandemic spurs ‘End Wildlife Crime’ drive
Pandemic spurs ‘End Wildlife Crime’ drive
Friday 5 June 2020, 10:28AM
HONG KONG: The economic, health and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provide a stark reminder of the high risks associated with the under-regulated, poorly regulated and illegal trade in wildlife, a new international initiative to “End Wildlife Crime” announced today (June 5).
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