PHOTO OF THE DAY August 3, 2004  

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Where Phuket, Thailand
When 1994
Photographer Jodi Cobb

Tourism has fed Thailand's economy for many years yet now casts a dark shadow on the environment. Pollution and deforestation due to commercial logging are slowly being curbed by new environmental restrictions.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Many Faces of Thailand," February 1996, National Geographic magazine)

(Text adapted from "The Many Faces of Thailand," February 1996, National Geographic magazine)


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