KOTA KINABALU: There is a need for Sabah Parks to work with eco-tourism operators to "guard" against sea turtle poachers within an isolated island in the Tun Mustapha Marine Park in northern Kudat district.
KOTA KINABALU: About 360 adult turtles were killed, based on the 9,000kg of dried sea turtle meat seized by police during a raid, says turtle conservation expert Dr James Alin.
KOTA KINABALU: The 9,000kg of dried sea turtle meat seized by police would likely be from about 360 adult sea turtles, says conservationist Dr James Alin.
The very day after the AquaGoat Crypto Currency-funded new hatchery was built, two green turtles landed in Libaran Island in the morning of September 30 and laid a total of 147 eggs.
AquaGoat Sea Turtle Hatchery thus made history when Honorary Wildlife Warden Sardi bin Baral decided to bury the two clutches of eggs in the newly-constructed site it kicked started another chapter for the sea turtle conservation work on Libaran
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah-based non-government organisation, Foster (Friends Of Sea Turtles Education & Research) has secured sponsorship funding from a US-based company for a turtle hatchery construction and beach cleaning initiative on Libaran Island.