Tourists visited organic vegetable farms at Koh Mak Resort. Some resorts on Koh Mak encourage guests to join green activities, such as planting trees, biking or releasing sea turtles. Local resorts and restaurants buy daily catches from local fishermen in order to reduce carbon footprints generated by food transportation from the mainland. Koh Mak is a small island between Koh Chang and Koh Kut in Trat. Most land is used as coconut and rubber plantations. Dasta and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a German research organisation, saw the potential of the Koh Chang cluster, including Koh Mak and Koh Kood, to become a low-carbon tourist destination. The cluster comprises 10% mainland area and the marine area covering Koh Chang, Koh Mak and Koh Kood and 49 smaller islands. Seven years ago, Dasta and GIZ introduced several CO2-reducing activities for the communities and tourism operators in the cluster, including community-based solid waste management, training in the tourism sector about climate change, energy and resource efficiency and organic production. Results have become visible for three years on Koh Mak. About four years ago, owners of the 35 resorts and about 20 restaurants inked a joint agreement to make Koh Mak a low carbon destination.
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