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Yanui the crocodile-catcher team’s first croc captured at sea

July 31, 2018

One of the Surat Thani-based crocodile-catcher team says that ‘Yanui’ is the first crocodile he has caught in the sea – and a lot more difficult than catching ‘Laypang’, which was captured in a lagoon off Layan Beach last August.

Phuket sets up committee to manage beaches ruled as public space by court

January 11, 2018

Phuket has set up a committee to manage the 178-rai Layan and Laypang beaches in Thalang district after it was ruled as public space by the Supreme Court.

Few restaurants resist ruling to vacate beach land

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2017

Politicians and police visited a Phuket beach on Thursday and declared that most of the restaurants illegally occupying it had vacated as per a Supreme Court ruling.

Laypang, Phuket’s star croc, has finally started to eat

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The crocodile captured from the tin mine lake near Laypang and Bang Tao Beach last month on Friday started to eat some chicken after rejecting the tasty morsels for a month.

'Laypang' gets measured up for new home

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 09, 2017

A big team from Bangkok consisting the Deputy Director of Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) – Pinsak Surasawadee, alongside Marine Specialist and Deputy Dean of Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University – Thon Thamrongnawasawad, and other specialists visited the 200 kilogram crocodile on Friday to verify the exact species in order to find a proper home for it.

Seub Nakhasathien Foundation visits Phuket’s crocodile

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2017

The Fisheries Department and National Park Department are working together on the project to find a location to release the crocodile.

Bang Tao crocodile has a name