A hermit crab is foced to live in a glass bottle instead of a natural shell home on Moo Koh Lanta Marine National Park. (Photo from Moo Koh Lanta Marine National Park Facebook account)
The good news is hermit crabs are everywhere on Moo Koh Lanta Marine National Park. The bad news is not all of them have homes.
Officials at the park off the southern mainland in Krabi asked for donations from the public for single shells for the crustaceans.
“Moo Kon Lanta National Park needs them for hermit crabs,” reads the message titled the Returning Homes to Hermit Crabs project.
The message was uploaded on the national park’s Facebook account on Wednesday and on Thursday alone the park in Koh Lanta district received pledges to donate at least 200 kilogrammes of the shells.
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