Pattaya sets up network to rescue environment

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Pattaya sets up network to rescue environment

 

Saturday, 09 October 2004

 

CHONBURI, Oct 9 (TNA) - Thailand's tourist resort of Pattaya in the eastern province of Chonburi is rushing to build up a network of local conservationists to help save the local environment.

 

Announcing the resort's plans today, Pattaya mayor Narin Wattanasatsathorn spoke of the urgent need to instil environmental awareness among the town's residents in the face of global environmental crisis.

 

Recent environmental campaigns by the town include a highly successful recycling campaign, which earned the town Bt6,430 to be sent to temples within the municipal district.

 

Despite being one of the best known tourist resorts in Thailand, Pattaya has suffered in the past from serious environmental degradation, but has taken steps to clean up its image.

 

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