| More than 90 percent of the garbage under the Andaman Sea from the last December's tsunami disaster has collected.
Thai Officials have stepped up the work in order to clear the seabed before the monsoon season starts.
Several hundreds tons of undersea garbage piled up along the coral reefs has been collected, the Director General of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Maitree Duangsawasdi, told TNA on Saturday.
Some 15 percent of the coral reefs were damaged during the tsunami, which devastated Phuket and five other southern coastal provinces, including Phang-nga, Krabi, Trang, Ranong and Satun, on 26 December, he said.
Six spots on the coral reef spots on the Surin, Similan and Phi Phi islands have been closed because of the heavy damage inflicted on the reefs during the disaster, he said.
The reefs should be revitalised while they are closed.
Heavy storms over the past few weeks have uprooted more than a hundred forest trees on the beaches.
Government officials are now trying to save the trees, said Mr. Maitree.
More trees will be planted in the area in the future, he said.
By: MCOT, Thailand
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