Good morning everybody!

Would like to add on to Huey Meim’s post that she mentioned we are going on a 2 weeks roadtrip, covering the whole peninsular Malaysia and seriously, the planning is all not easy. However, looking at how things are progressing.. it looks like its going to turn out to be a wonderful trip out!

By the way, when we first heard about the Egg=Life pledge drive, they were aiming at collecting 40,000 signatures from the public. So then, the trio was thinking since we are going on a drive around this part of Malaysia, why not raise the bar to 100,000 signatures? We’re being very optimistic about this and am sure that as Malaysians, we are hoping that the crowds that we approach would support us in this effort. =)

To some of the people that I’ve mentioned on this project, they were being quite “wahhhh.. so jealous… can go jalan jalan one!” but to tell you guys honestly, this is definitely more to a mission of creating awareness and a call to support the petition for stricter laws against poaching and the sale of turtle eggs.

SOME FACT FINDING

– Turtle conservation falls under the jurisdiction of individual state governments

– It is illegal to consume and sell turtle eggs in East Malaysia

– There are no laws banning the sale and consumption of turtle eggs in any Peninsular states except for Terengganu

– In Terengganu, its illegal to eat and sell leatherback turtle eggs (which by the way has been declared extinct in Malaysia), but there is no legislation protecting the eggs of the other three species of marine turtle that land on our shores ie. Hawksbill, Green and Ridley Olive turtles.

Oh yea, did we tell you that we are going to drive around in a turtle car? =)

Cheers,

Nell