Park chief calls for backup to enforce Maya Bay closure

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Park chief calls for backup to enforce Maya Bay closure

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Maya Bay will be closed to all visitors during a four-month recovery period this year from June to September. Photo: Kavin Tao
 

PHUKET: The Chief of the Hat Nopparat – Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park, Worapoj Lomlim, has pleaded to be reinforced with more officers in order to enforce the ban on all visitors to Maya Bay off Phi Phi Island, east of Phuket, starting in June.

 

The call for backup follows the historic move last week to preserve Maya Bay, one of Phang Nga Bay’s best-known and most-visited sites for natural beauty, by closing the site to all visitors from June 1 to September 30 this year.

 

The four-month closure is to allow the marine environment to recover from damage by heavy tourism caused by some 4,000 tourists a day visiting the site.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/park-chief-calls-for-backup-to-enforce-maya-bay-closure-66681.php#Bysbi6jaLP7M7LHP.97

 

 

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[Ron19]

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[cornishcarlos]

Well that's a valid point... It's great on paper, to close the bay for environmental reasons but enforcing the ban is another thing.

Like most road laws, never enforced and the death toll keeps rising !!