Mangrove Forestation to create coastal nurseries. The 5,000-rai forestation areas cover Chumphon, Surat Thani and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces. Supporting the national economic and social development plan, the project serves as a natural carbon sink, increases benthos species, and establishes a forest and environment conservation network.
Aquatic Animal Hatchery Learning Center to promote economic aquatic animal aquaculture. Developed on a crab hatchery learning center with collaboration from government offices and community, the learning center transfers knowledge and promotes conservative fishing for communities in 17 coastal provinces in the Gulf of Thailand. Through the center, a marine resource conservation network is established, to conserve and promote sustainable fishing. PTTEP has established aquatic animal hatchery learning centers in Songkhla, Pattani, and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces and integrated technology in the enhancement of local fishing groups’ knowledge.
Coastal Conservation Area and Fish Home that involves the marking of coastal conservation areas with buoys and the building of fish home at aquatic animal learning centers in 17 coastal provinces in the Gulf of Thailand. The project is aimed at increasing the abundance of marine biodiversity and sustainable income for the fishing communities.
Sea Turtle Conservation implemented in cooperation with Air and Coastal Defense Command, the Royal Thai Navy’s Sea Turtles Conservation Center in Sattahip district, Chon Buri province. PTTEP supports the renovation of office, hatchery and hospital buildings, to ensure international hygiene standards for the hatchery and treatment of sea turtles before return them to the sea. PTTEP also provides medical tools and equipment for sick or injured sea turtles treatment and surgery. Moreover, PTTEP supported conservation toolkits and renovated the conservation center’s landscape to turn it to a conservative tourism destination. In addition, PTTEP extended the support for the conservation center of Department of Marine and Coastal Conservation in Rayong province and the Royal Thai Navy’s conservation center in Songkhla province.
H.T.M.S. Underwater Learning Site Project is designed to be a case study methods of former battleships to be underwater tourist attraction transformation. The project is a collaborative effort with various agencies and the local communities to lays H.T.M.S. Prab at Koh Ngam Noi, Chumphon Province and H.T.M.S. Sattakut at Koh Tao, Surat Thani Province. These man-made dive sites were built to be a new home for corals and marine animals as well as to reduce impacts on the natural coral reefs that are recovering from coral bleaching. It has been considered as one of the popular dive sites to study marine biodiversity. In addition, this project reveals the abundance of marine life in Thai sea and helps promoting tourism and generating income for local communities.
Seafood Product Value Enhancement that throws supports to the communities under the 17 coastal provinces’ Aquatic Animal Hatchery Learning Center network. They are encouraged to form a seafood production and distribution group, enjoying the provision of basic production tools and equipment and training by experts on the production of seafood and processed seafood as well as online marketing. Through the supports, the quality of their products meets market demands while communities earn more income and create more jobs
Ocean Waste Management project aims to reduce impacts on marine and coastal ecosystem in 9 target provinces around the Gulf of Thailand through an ocean waste management model by preventing solid waste leakage into the ocean by installing the waste-trapping buoys in canals, initiating coastal and ocean waste collection activities, raising awareness on solid waste issue, increasing community income through technology-assisted production of construction materials from waste and recycling of waste from fishing net to other products and including marine conservation community network establishment.