KOTA KINABALU: A cryptocurrency company has stepped in to play a significant role in Sabah s turtle conservation efforts as funding from pandemic-hit travel companies dwindles.
United States-based AquaGoat Finance is chipping in to help Friends of Sea Turtles Education & Research (Foster) in its annual community clean-up of the state s east coast Libaran shoreline, the focus of turtle conservation efforts since 2004.
Foster president Alexander Yee said other sponsors for the beach clean-up programme included government agencies.
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a sharp drop in contributions from Foster s traditional source of tourism-based companies, he said on Sunday (July 25). I was getting worried as sea turtle conservation very much depended on having a clean shoreline, he added at the launch of the seventh annual Libaran beach clean-up.