Sub-district Mayor Taweep Goraneeyakit leads
government workers, students and residents of Chonburi’s Ang Sila
Sub-district to plant mangrove trees in honor of HM the Queen’s 82nd
birthday.
About 500 government workers, students and residents
of Chonburi’s Ang Sila Sub-district planted trees, cleaned the Bang Proi
canal and worked to restore the area’s mangrove population in a
pre-Mother’s Day environmental event.
Sub-district Mayor Taweep Goraneeyakit opened the Aug. 7 Mangrove Forest
Restoration and Conservation Project, which is a multi-step program to
plant 2,500 mangrove trees, remove trash from area waters, release
25,000 fish and marine animals into the wild and give young plants to
locals.
Sub-district clerk Sanchai Thonguthai said the royal initiative is a
continuation of a program to teach residents about how they can preserve
the environment while developing their communities.
Mangroves, especially Rhizophora plants that are difficult to propagate,
are a withering resource in the kingdom, he said. Tourism and
restaurants contribute to the problem by polluting waterways.
The tree-planting was held in honor of HM the Queen’s 82nd birthday, as
she has long been a proponent of environmental conservation, officials
said. (CPRD)
