Love and Warmth at Winter’s End festival at the Royal Plaza, Dusit Palace, Bangkok, Thailand

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Growing Coral & Coral Reefs Nursery, Koh Tao, Surat Thani, Thailand

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“Ko Tao “Turtle Island” is an island in Thailand and forms part of the Chumphon Archipelago on the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand. It covers an area of about 21 km². Administratively it forms a district of Surat Thani Province.  The main settlement is Ban Mae Hat.

The economy of the island is almost exclusively centered on tourism, especially scuba diving.”[1]

“Coral ecology is the basic knowledge to any marine conservation courses and activity. In this course you will learn to understand what coral reefs are,  their importance, and how much danger they are in. Identifying coral genus is a very interesting activity. It makes you aware to the immense diversity of corals and their individual beauties.”[2]

“Coral nurseries and artificial reefs are a form of active restoration aimed at increasing coral health, diversity, or abundance. Corals  are colonial organisms which reproduce primarily asexually to grow larger or repair damaged areas.”[3]

“Koh Tao currently has a number of coral nurseries using different techniques for research and restoration purposes. It is hoped that coral colonies from these nurseries can help add to the reefs around Koh Tao and provide a means of restoring damaged are as faster than would naturally occur.”[4]

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Ljubljana City, Slovenia

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“Ljubljana locally also is the capital and largest city of Slovenia.  During antiquity, it was the site of a Roman city called Emona. It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918.

Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, a Slovene-inhabited part of the Habsburg Monarchy, and it has been the cultural, educational, economic, political, and administrative center of independent Slovenia since 1991. Its central geographic location within Slovenia, transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions, and cultural tradition are contributing factors to its leading position.”[1]

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Innbruck City, Austria

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“Innsbruck is the capital city of Tyrol in western Austria. The name translates as “Inn bridge”. Innsbruck lies about half way between Munich in Germany and Verona in Italy.

Innsbruck is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics. Innsbruck also hosted the first Winter Youth Olympics in 2012. .”[1]

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New Yuan Ming Palace(New Summer Palace), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

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“Zhuhai is a prefecture-level city on the southern coast of Guangdong province in China. Located in the Pearl River Delta.  Zhuhai is also one of China’s premier tourist destinations, being called the Chinese Riviera.”[1]

 “Built of the same size as the burned down Summer Palace in Beijing, the New Summer Palace in Zhuhai reflects numerous scenic spots with its old construction style combined with modern features.

The Palace, which incorporates a classical royal palace complex, a classical garden building on the Yangtze Delta and western style buildings, reproduces the elegance and talent of the flourishing age of the Qing Dynasty. The west side of the Palace contains western style buildings of unique noble disposition. The white marble walls and the exquisite decorations of the interior hall make you feel as if you were in an ancient European palace.”[2]

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