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Restoring the Acacia wetland: a volunteer-led project in Phuket
Help us clean and replant the Acacia wetland before the November planting window closes.
🇹🇭 Phuket, Phuket, Thailand1,331 views
The Acacia wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 88 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 107 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, including native species selected by a local botanist.
The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade.
All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $650 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $350
• Tools and protective gear: $90
• Waste removal and skip hire: $165
• Signage and educational materials: $45
If you're reading this, thank you.
- Opas
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Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.
Take care. Shared it with a few friends. It's not much but it's yours.
Stay strong. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.
Thinking of you and your family, Opas. Great idea, hope you get there. All the best.