A line-up of activities for the group in 2008 is presented here for everyone’s reference. 15 January 2008 : Monitoring of green and hawksbill turtle nesting activity in Chagar Hutang Beach, Redang Island commences. This is the first year that we start monitoring in January. In the past, we used to start at [...]
Today is sort of special as our first four river terrapin hatchlings emerged from Nest No. 1 that was laid on 10th February 2008. After five seasons of seeing them hatch and emerge, I still feel wonder and excitement when hatching time comes.
The whole of today was spent tracking river terrapins in the Setiu River, but there were many asides as my account will soon unfold. The arrangement was that the team (me, James and Harris) meet in my office at 7.00 am, and Harris would drive and later man the 30 hp boat hired from Mat [...]
It was a very brief stay in Chagar Hutang (CH) this time around, just one night, but eventful as always.
This is the story of Little Princess, the amazing hawksbill that was first tagged by us when we started the tagging program in 1993.
Four accounts of satellite-tracking the long distance migration of sea turtles in Malaysia.
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