Published on: Sunday, May 09, 2021
By: David Thien
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Natives at the foothills of Mount Kinabalu are expected to be co-protectors of the geopark.
CONSERVATION of Mount Kinabalu ecology with the local community promotes social happiness as the mountain ecosystem is a unique treasure trove of biodiversity consisting of 2.5 per cent of the earth’s flora.
That is why it deserves its status as a Unesco World Heritage Site and, hopefully, its aspiring Unesco Global Geopark as well which will be a happy development for the world community, as one of nature’s best in the global natural biodiversity and endemism ecosystem.
Published on: Friday, December 11, 2020
By: FMT
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A visitor receiving an adoption certificate from Sabah Parks assistant research officer Barry Richard Yamie (left).
Kota Kinabalu: The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a huge toll on many lives – even that of the turtles of the Sabah Parks.
The turtle nest adoption programme has seen a fall in participation, from 650 last year to just 120 until the end of September this year. The number of adoptions had been increasing from 103 nests at the launching of the programme in 2016.
Many of those who “adopted” the nests have been tourists who have visited Turtle Islands Park, about 40km from the east coast district of Sandakan where endangered Hawksbill and Green turtles land almost every night to lay their eggs at Pulau Selingan, Bakungan Kechil and Gulisan.
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