News National Geographic rates Phuket in serious trouble

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National Geographic Traveller experts rate Phuket Island's environment at a low score.

The well known National Geographic Traveler website & magazine's November edition highlights 522 experts votes on 111 islands around the world. To see how the integrity of these islands around the world is holding up, Traveler and National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations conducted this fourth annual Destination Scorecard survey, aided by George Washington University. The scores that followed reflected the experts' opinions, on a scale of 100 or Enhanced to 0 (zero) or Catastrophic. Faroe Islands in Denmark was top with a score of 87. Phuket scored only 46. It was 106th or 6th from bottom. Some quoted phrases from their remarks on Phuket suggest their thinking behind the scores: quote "Chaotic development. The Thai people do not realize what a beautiful island we have. They continue to over-exploit all the island's resources. We missed the window of opportunity after the 2004 tsunami to clean out illegal coastal development." unquote
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but to find out some responses to that survey, we asked some tourists and the Patong Deputy Mayor how they rated Phuket's environment out of 100, and what they thought yesterday, which was also the first good weather day of the high season. Let's hear what they said:
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Andaman News TV11 (VHF dial) 8.30am + maybe FM90.5 Radio Thailand 6pm, both broadcast to Phang Nga, Krabi & Phuket provinces, FM108 Mazz Radio 7.30pm in Phuket & Phuket Cable TV Channel 1 at 7, 10.30 or 11pm, Wednesday 14 November 2007

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