Visit to the Perhentian hatchery
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Hi everyone,
As per Nell and Grace's posts, we had a wonderful and very fruitful time on Perhentian - fulfilled our objective of spotting turtles. We believe we saw more than one but they were so quick in swimming away we could barely catch up. However, we did manage to capture it on a short video - check it out on our Facebook fan page!
Apart from that, we also visited the turtle hatchery on Perhentian, where they sealed off access to a few particular beaches to allow turtles to nest in peace.
Here's us arriving at the hatchery:
This particular beach was sealed off and we were told it was off-limits to tourist and visitors.
The markings that are used to identify the translocated turtle eggs.
As we were leaving, a boat carried two mat sallehs to the island - yep, right onto the beach that's off-limits. Go figure.
We certainly hope the authorities take their roles of protecting these animals seriously. The Leatherback Turtle is a perfect example - are we going to keep repeating the same mistakes?
posted by telurrangers at
12:47 AM
2 Comments:
Is this the hatchery at Tiga Ruang? They only sealed the place from October to May, and it's open to the public in between those months.
Unfortunately what this hatchery is famous of is saling turtle eggs which are then sold on the markets in the mainland. It is a common knowledge in the Perhentian still no one seems to do anything about that. People wake up. The turtle is almost gone from the planet! No more turtle soup, no more turtle eggs for 1 RG each.. Bye bye turtle...
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