Thailand bans sunscreen in its national parks

[PETERTHEEATER]

3 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Does this also include National Parks in the Northern Mountains where you cannot even see the sea from the top of the Mountain ?

Those bare bum monkeys aint gonna like it....

[KannikaP]

17 minutes ago, PEE TEE said:

Its ok just use coconut oil 

You'll finish up smelling like a fried Bounty Bar.    LOL

[DUNROAMIN]

3 hours ago, utalkin2me said:

Does it hurt the coral more than dropping anchors on it?

Or having hundreds of tourist boats churning up the water and dumping trash overboard.

[NightSky]

3 hours ago, geovalin said:

Hawaii and a lot of other islands / states in Pacific Ocean but also Mexico took the same measure.

Others will follow.

This is a good decision.

Bravo

As others have said they should ban the ingredients from sale / importation rather than ban all health protecting sun screens. 
 

Also to protect the corals why not ban those silly polluting jet ski and restrict shipping from those areas?
 

On the contrary this is a rash, POOR decision with no thought put into or the knock on consequences of it just like most other decisions made by the Thai establishment. 

 

 

 

 

[Thunglom]

This is a classic "knee-jerk" dictum from some nabob who really hasn't researched this or thought it through.

It is obviously aimed at the marine National parks rather than the majority of parks which are nowhere near the sea.

 

I would have thought the obvious thing to do would be to consult with countries like the USA nd Australia who have to mange vast areas of marine parks.

 

This dictum is stark reminder of the incompetence in Thai management of their national parks. Rather than a total restructuring they rely on little sound bites to give the impression they are doing their job, when in reality it is an example of the ineptitude of those in charge.

 

or they could have spent 5 minutes to read a few article like this.....

 

https://www.consumerreports.org/sunscreens/the-truth-about-reef-safe-sunscreen/

[Thunglom]

12 minutes ago, NightSky said:

 

 

or they could have spent five minutes to read this article...

 

https://www.consumerreports.org/sunscreens/the-truth-about-reef-safe-sunscreen/

 

[IamNoone88]

Fix the economy and vaccination program in any order! Just do it.

[brianthainess]

Good to know all park officials, will be able to read the English ingredients in very small print and know which one's are banned.  

[terryofcrete]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This current administration is infamous for pledges, declarations, proclamations, silly laws, and promises. Few are even remembered, much less followed up upon two weeks later.

Still need to be called out for the stupidity of their absurd laws. Coral is now much more important than protecting humans from Sunstroke  , skin cancer or hospitalisation from being cooked. Of course if people dying or very ill from Covid doesn't bother them why would they care ! Beyond comprehension , as usual. 

[Peterphuket]

They also do everything to keep the tourist out.

Very clever.

[swm59nj]

2 hours ago, samtam said:

Exactly how are they going to enforce this ban?

Exactly. How will they know if a person is actually wearing sunscreen?  Trained dog or invent some sort of scan?

[bstafford214]

2 hours ago, thaitom said:

Start by banning the sales of harmful sunscreens, But no , they wouldn't consider that.

Of course they can't follow the logical thing to do. They are more concerned about how much they can fine the tourist and get money from them.

[KCM3]

Dear tourist - we will fine you for using sunscreen in our NPs.  But don’t worry, this is impossible since the NPs are all closed anyways….

[Chivas]

We've heard some utter insanity down the decades but this one is of truly exceptional quality.....????

 

[Misterwhisper]

Funny. I always thought that the gigantic hordes of ignorant tourists trampling on corals, breaking off pieces as "souvenirs", their excursion boats dropping anchor on coral banks, and their hotels piping raw sewage right into the sea were the real causes for the irreparable damage. Who would've thought that in fact sunscreen was the true culprit all along...

[Benmart]

More self inflicted damage to the all important image of this country. The timing is brilliant.

[cardinalblue]

Somehow I would think efforts to control raw sewage, chemical waste and plastic waste in thailand pose far greater threats to the environment/marine life than  sunscreen….

 

Low hanging fruit…I would be fine with it but I know thailand is doing a terrible job in protecting their environment from the above hazards….so prioritize and regulate/enforce the other hazards b/f you get to sunscreen…

 

never confuse activity with achievement is my motto….

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Well done Thailand.

The only thing left to do,  is to tell the tourists to

p-iss off, direct to there faces at the airport.

 

 

That's Immigration's job isn't it?

[lavezzi]

I've vitiligo.

Thanks!

 

[JensenZ]

4 hours ago, Shuya said:

So the holiday in Thailand now comes with Covid AND skin cancer. Nice. 

They can try to improve the coral, but no one will come to see it. Are they going to run around sniffing visitors to detect sunscreen. Maybe some trained sunscreen sniffer dogs. Slap some 100K fines on tourists for wearing sunscreen and it will be on every news channel around the globe LOL.

[dogfish180]

4 hours ago, utalkin2me said:

Does it hurt the coral more than dropping anchors on it?

Or nets!

[Bernietravelling]

4 hours ago, geovalin said:

Hawaii and a lot of other islands / states in Pacific Ocean but also Mexico took the same measure.

Others will follow.

This is a good decision.

Bravo

The main problem with all these rules is:

They do not really improve environmental protection a lot,

concentrating on minor issues,

and distract from the main issues.

 

A good example for this are the rules in some African countries, like Kenya, prohibiting the use of any plastic bags in your luggage and checked by customs upon entry:

The main problem for ocean life is micro-plastics.

And the main polluter are the antifoulings of big sea ships.

Any laws in Kenya against those? - of cause not, money rules...

 

 

[spidermike007]

54 minutes ago, terryofcrete said:

Still need to be called out for the stupidity of their absurd laws. Coral is now much more important than protecting humans from Sunstroke  , skin cancer or hospitalisation from being cooked. Of course if people dying or very ill from Covid doesn't bother them why would they care ! Beyond comprehension , as usual. 

The truly astonishing part, is that most of the coral is gone. Dead. On their watch. From raw sewage, and jet skis, and fuel dumping and trash dumping. A myriad of marine enforcement laws, that were not enforced. So, this is some sort of trick intended to deceive the most naive, or some NGO prepared to make a pledge of some sort. 

 

There is nothing about this that is real. These guys care less for the environment, than they do hiphop. 

[Orinoco]

The Thai people need to stop using there country as a rubbish bin.

Also stop trying to blame the foreigners again.

Shame on you Thailand

 

[Bobydog]

5 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Does this also include National Parks in the Northern Mountains where you cannot even see the sea from the top of the Mountain ?

Probably, these fikwhits will be cancelling three meals a day soon so why not reduce breathing to once every minute, makes as much bludy sense

[MrJ2U]

I guess that's good.

 

I do know that the run off from agriculture land is a culprit with the overuse of  "banned" pesticides.

 

I usually put it on before I leave my resorts room.

 

 

[JensenZ]

20 minutes ago, Bernietravelling said:

The main problem with all these rules is:

They do not really improve environmental protection a lot,

concentrating on minor issues,

and distract from the main issues.

 

A good example for this are the rules in some African countries, like Kenya, prohibiting the use of any plastic bags in your luggage and checked by customs upon entry:

The main problem for ocean life is micro-plastics.

And the main polluter are the antifoulings of big sea ships.

Any laws in Kenya against those? - of cause not, money rules...

 

 

The main problem for coral is not plastic or sunscreen. Higher water temperature kills corals. 1 °C above average can kill it. In 2016-2017 they estimated 29 - 50% of Great Barrier Reef's coral died (bleached), and that water is very clean.

[Bobydog]

25 minutes ago, dogfish180 said:

Or nets!

These jerks are just trying to divert attention from the utter fikup they have achieved so far to avert this current situation!

[samjaidee]

[jcmj]

Hell. I would just set up a stand with tanning lotions that do not have those chemicals at the beach and make a killing. That is whenever it opens again. Although I’m pretty sure they already have that covered by the local people promoting special Thai sunscreens.