Yoong island is to be closed to tourists to protect corals from bleaching



KRABI: -- The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants is about to close the Yoong island in the Andaman Sea to outsiders probably later this month in order to protect antler coral from bleaching.

Dr Thorn Thamrongnavasawat, vice dean of the faculty of fishery of Kasetsart University, disclosed during the weekend that he had suggested the department to close the Yoong island which is in the Phi-Phi archipelago to outsiders in order to ease coral bleaching problem which may occur this month due to the warming up of sea water as a result of El Nino.

He said that El Nino had already sent the temperature In the Pacific ocean going up and had already affected corals in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. He added that if the water temperature in the Indian Ocean went up, it might lead to coral bleaching in the Andaman sea.

Dr Thorn explained that Yoong island is rich with antler corals and suspending human activities in the Andaman sea such as snorkeling, scuba diving and anchoring through the closure of the island could help strengthen the corals so they could better withstand bleaching.

He pointed out that this measure was the first of its kind to be implemented to protect corals from bleaching as a result of sea warming.

He assured that the closure of Yoong island would not stop tourists from visiting other islands in Phi-Phi archipelago. Koh Mae Phai, he said, is about one kilometer away from Yoong island is good for diving because of its unspoiled undersea environment.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/153831


-- Thai PBS 2016-03-07

They try this Malaysia every so often. Usually some developer with a lot of $$ comes along and, er, plans change.

They try this Malaysia every so often. Usually some developer with a lot of $$ comes along and, er, plans change.

You have much knowledge grasshopper.....

Please enlighten us ... with some ...

example where the Malaysia closed a reef and a developer reversed that action.

Perhaps reef is too specific .. just examples where precious and impossible to replace natural resources were protected, and developers took them over and destroyed them.

How is closing the island going to lower ocean temperatures?

How is closing the island going to lower ocean temperatures?

Not so many peeing into it maybe

Koh Larn should be closed three days a week

To prevent this beautiful island from becoming

A polluted Pattaya!!

They try this Malaysia every so often. Usually some developer with a lot of $$ comes along and, er, plans change.

You have much knowledge grasshopper.....

Please enlighten us ... with some ...

example where the Malaysia closed a reef and a developer reversed that action.

Perhaps reef is too specific .. just examples where precious and impossible to replace natural resources were protected, and developers took them over and destroyed them.

The Chinese surely did.

Yes closing the island will help the coral recover but nothing to do with coral bleaching.

You have much knowledge grasshopper.....

Please enlighten us ... with some ...

example where closing an island to people will stop coral bleaching ?

where's that triple happy pizza

just google coral bleaching / dying, caused by human farming pesticides

and fertilisers, i'm sure there's more to it grasshopper.

Yes closing the island will help the coral recover but nothing to do with coral bleaching.

Agree, he simply has to use any excuse available to assist in his fight to protect the marine environment. And he has won a few battles already, I think he is doing a good job.

What an idiocracy - coral bleaching is a result of an elevated above normal water temperature for too long time, has absolutely nothing to do with tourism... But, at the end of the day, this is Thailand...

You guys need to go back and read the OP carefully it explains what he is trying to do. Ya'll have missed the key point [emoji571]

They try this Malaysia every so often. Usually some developer with a lot of $$ comes along and, er, plans change.

You have much knowledge grasshopper.....

Please enlighten us ... with some ...

example where the Malaysia closed a reef and a developer reversed that action.

Perhaps reef is too specific .. just examples where precious and impossible to replace natural resources were protected, and developers took them over and destroyed them.

seek and ye shall find