Sarawak Releases Baby Turtles Into The Sea
August 24, 2006 @ 12:54 PM (EST)
Source: Thestar.com.my
Sarawak releases between 100,000 and 200,000 baby turtles a year into the sea under a turtle conservation programme, but the survival rate was a mere 0.01% to 1%.
"So, we are trying to produce as many baby turtles as possible to increase the turtle population," said Sarawak Forestry's biologist James Bali, when asked after a public talk on leatherback sea turtles here on Tuesday night...
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