Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome (center) helps release
2,000 silver perch into the sea for World Environment Day.
Jetsada Homklin
Pattaya officials released 2,000 silver perch into the sea as the city marked
World Environment Day.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome presided over the June 4 event, a day before the
official United Nations celebration to raise awareness about environmental
conservation, food shortages, energy crises and population growth. This year’s
theme was “Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level.”
City workers joined the Naklua Bay Conservation Group and Central Center at
Jomtien Beach, where they picked up garbage and cleaned the shoreline.
Workers from the city Public Health and Environment Department’s Natural
Resources Office then released the fish before offering a lecture on the
benefits reaped from the beach and conservation of the diversity of the marine
environment.