Eco Operator in Koh Lanta

Blue Planet Divers Goes Green

Awarded ECO Operator

This year our efforts to be a green organisation have been rewarded by being awarded the status of ECO Operator, by the Project AWARE Foundation. The Project AWARE Foundation works with divers to conserve underwater environments and it launched the Go ECO campaign into the Asia Pacific region in 2005. The main objective of Go ECO is for dive centres to minimise their impact on the aquatic ecosystem whilst contributing to environmental, economic and cultural conservation. Dive centres are required to meet best practice environmental guidelines and commit to the Project AWARE Go ECO philosophy.

- Go ECO Operator Guidelines
- Go ECO Tourist Guidelines
- Project AWARE Foundation & Blue Planet Divers Blue Planet Divers Press Release

Beach Clean Up

Every year tons of rubbish gets washed up on the beautiful beaches of Koh Lanta, and for the last 2 years Blue Planet Divers has been working with Greenfins, a United Nations Environmental Project to clean up the beaches.

Every year Greenfins brings nearly a 100 volunteers to the island to help and many tourists, locals and resorts help too. This year Blue Planet Divers were given the responsibility to manage the beach clean up on Klong Dao Beach.

With the help of over 170 volunteers, we were able to pick up, sort and recycle (where possible) over 1060kg of rubbish from this beach alone. Mellisa Bunyan, one of the owners of Blue Planet said “It was a great day, the beach looked fantastic afterwards and I was astonished to find out we picked up over 170kg of flip flops from Klong Dao Beach alone!”

In all over 4.7 tonnes of rubbish was picked up by over 700 volunteers, we would like to thank everybody who came to help and have promised Greenfins that they can rely on our support for many years to come.