The Director of Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation’s foreign affairs division, Sunee Saksuea, said after the country submitted six Andaman national parks to UNESCO for world heritage site entitlement on December 18 last year, they had made way to the tentative list already.
The Government of Thailand is surveying locations in Chumphon and Ranong in the South for engineering, environmental and economic potential of a land bridge connecting the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea, according to local media.
After seeing the adorable baby dugong "Mariam," who has become an internet sensation, marine surveys in the Andaman Sea have discovered a 200 strong dugong population, mostly at Ko Libong Animal Sanctuary.
Tens of thousands of tourists have fled the Thai resort islands of Koh Phangan and Koh Tao ahead of tropical storm Pabuk which is set to bring heavy rains, wind, and large waves of up to 7 metres.
The Thai government is reviewing the feasibility of the Kra Canal project which will connect the Gulf of Thailand to Andaman Sea across southern Thailand, creating a strategic sea route.
The flight data recorder, or black box, from the Myanmar army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea two weeks ago has been recovered, Myanmar authorities announced on June 18.
Myanmar’s rescue forces on June 11 found 26 bodies of victims from the missing military plane, which is believed to have crashed last week in the Andaman Sea with 122 people aboard.
Rescuers found seven more bodies on June 8 during the search for a Myanmar military aircraft that went missing with over 100 people on board, bringing the total fatalities to 10, the Myanmar military said.
Pieces of a Myanmar military plane which went missing with more than 100 soldiers and family members aboard were found in the Andaman Sea late on June 7, a local official said.
Phuket in southern Thailand has been dubbed as a “City of Gastronomy” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
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