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Ko Bulon: Low-level tourism meets graceful island life

Ko Bulon: Low-level tourism meets graceful island life

The little-known Bulon group continues to support Urak Lawoi 'sea people' who have managed to preserve the natural beauty of their islands. (Island Daze #21)

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The Urak Lawoi people of Ko Bulon kept treating their islands with respect when mass tourism delivered environmental and social destruction to Ko Lipe and other islands that are also home to these indigenous ‘People of the Sea.’ The balance they’ve struck between low-level tourism and preservation of both the environment and their ways of life have turn…

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