Green diving

The Green Fins programme aims to educate divers and protect coral reefs

NORMITA THONGTHAM

Dive operator Andrea Hinrichs has been taking tourists on scuba diving expeditions around islands off Phuket for nearly 30 years. Through the years she has observed how healthy coral reefs have disappeared, and along with them several kinds of fish.

"Some fish that I often saw in the past are now seldom seen," she says. "If we don't take care of our reefs now, our children and grandchildren will be seeing healthy coral reefs only in videos."

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to be applauded ,

one hopes it's more than window dressing .

perhaps if the seafood restaurants on the island hadn't been serving up quite so many of them they would still be about

(the fish that is)