Chutima Sidasathian
Source: Phuket Wan
June 20, 2010

Phuket, Thailand - Phuket's coral reefs will gain invaluable help this week from 450 experts taking part in the Second Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium, over five days on Phuket.

On Tuesday, many of them will dive off the reefs themselves, before returning to talk more about the problems that are assailing coral reefs throughout the region.

Phuket Vice Governor Treerayut Eamtakul said today that with so many difficulties to be surmounted to protect the Andaman's coral reefs for the future, it was timely and useful to have experts from 35 countries offering up their ideas.

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