Protest against Oil Drilling in Samui Island

Sixty fishing boats gather near the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in a protest-at-sea off the coast of Samui Island organized by the Siam Gulf Preservation Network Group and joined by the Rainbow Warrior, to expose the dangers posed by a planned offshore drilling project to marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Samui is one of Thailand’s top tourist destinations, and the islands around it such as Kho Tao and Kho Phangan are valued for their coral reefs. Greenpeace has joined the protest in solidarity with community movements and is calling on the government of Thailand to abandon its fossil-fuel driven development plans and immediately adopt measures to safeguard marine biodiversity in the Gulf of Thailand and the livelihoods of its coastal communities.