Story by Karla Cripps, CNN. Videos by Hazel Pfeifer and Nicolas Axelrod, CNN Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing ...

It’s 9 a.m. on a May morning in Thailand ... tiny Maya Bay, which has no hotels or inhabitants, Boracay is home to as many as 17,000 people, many of whom are directly engaged in the tourism ...

The Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach that came out in 2000 about a fictional island utopia hidden from the outside world helped make Thailand's Maya Bay very ... jumped over the side to wade ...

On any given day in Thailand ... returned after a tourism ban and the COVID-19 pandemic between 2018 and 2022 halted all visitors to the bay. The sun rises over Maya Bay’s limestone mountains ...

Thailand Supreme Court orders Royal Forest Department to restore Maya Bay after being affected by the shooting of The Beach movie. Nineteen plaintiffs including the Krabi provincial administrative ...

Officials in Thailand have announced ... trip visitors prior to the closure of Maya Bay. But it’s been one of the country’s most famous attractions over the last two decades, thanks much ...

4. Responsible Tourism: Respect the bay's fragile ecosystem and follow local guidelines to minimize your impact. Maya Bay is ...

It’s disheartening, but a huge improvement over what ... Thon on the Maya Bay restoration project — all part of a broader aim to usher in a new era of sustainable tourism in Thailand.

It's 9 a.m. on a May morning in ... control and tourism management," says the TAT's statement. "This is to properly determine measures for environmental sustainability of Maya Bay during future ...