Phi Phi islands’ sustainable tourism renaissance – in pictures

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While travel stopped and the world locked down, in the dazzling blue waters of Thailand’s idyllic Phi Phi islands, a gentle renaissance was under way

Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty ImagesTourists sitting in a speedboat as they visit Pi Leh Bay on Thailand’s Phi Phi Leh island. Boats will no longer be allowed to moor near the beach and will instead drop tourists off at a jetty away from the cove. Tours will be limited to one hour, with a maximum of 300 people per tourTourists in a longtail boat visiting Thailand’s Phi Phi Leh island.

Some of the first foreign visitors to return to the area are happy with the new, more exclusive approachA conservationist looking at coral in the sea off Thailand’s Andaman coast. ‘Everything suggests that there is more reproduction, especially among sharks, which particularly appreciate calm waters,’ says Thon. As for the corals, ‘more than 40% of the fragments replanted in Maya Bay have survived, a very satisfactory figure obtained thanks to the absence of visitors’.

 

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