Mr T(urtle)
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I was wondering who wants to dive and conserve the environment?
I run a marine conservation project in Malaysia and believe in long term conservation not just 2-3 years but 20 to 40 years. Our project presently runs an afterschool club at the primary school on the Perhentian Islands Malaysia. We visit every month and teach the children about how their activities on the land affects the marine life. Last year we heard the children telling off some older villagers for throwing fishing line into the sea as it will suffocate turtles. We also run a turtle sanctuary project on Perhentian Besar where we are educating the tourists about turtles and how the rainforests and reefs are connected.
We are currently only at phase 1 of the project and still have alot of work to get to Phase 2 which will be establishing the marine clubs on the mainland, educating all tourists on the island of Perhentian and establishing the migration routes of the nesting turtles. Once this is secured we will look at protecting the feeding grounds of the turtles.
All of this requires alot of time and effort but is the only way to save the turtles of Malaysia - the Leatherback and olive ridley turtles are on the verge of local extinction and without focused effort and money these turtles will be lost!
You can join our project and help with our marine club program and dive to your hearts content!
Type in 'great marine project' into a search engine and you will find our website. or join our bebo, facebook or myspace groups and get regular updates about the project.
You can also help us to conduct reef check surveys on Tioman island as well!
Mr T(urtle)
I run a marine conservation project in Malaysia and believe in long term conservation not just 2-3 years but 20 to 40 years. Our project presently runs an afterschool club at the primary school on the Perhentian Islands Malaysia. We visit every month and teach the children about how their activities on the land affects the marine life. Last year we heard the children telling off some older villagers for throwing fishing line into the sea as it will suffocate turtles. We also run a turtle sanctuary project on Perhentian Besar where we are educating the tourists about turtles and how the rainforests and reefs are connected.
We are currently only at phase 1 of the project and still have alot of work to get to Phase 2 which will be establishing the marine clubs on the mainland, educating all tourists on the island of Perhentian and establishing the migration routes of the nesting turtles. Once this is secured we will look at protecting the feeding grounds of the turtles.
All of this requires alot of time and effort but is the only way to save the turtles of Malaysia - the Leatherback and olive ridley turtles are on the verge of local extinction and without focused effort and money these turtles will be lost!
You can join our project and help with our marine club program and dive to your hearts content!
Type in 'great marine project' into a search engine and you will find our website. or join our bebo, facebook or myspace groups and get regular updates about the project.
You can also help us to conduct reef check surveys on Tioman island as well!
Mr T(urtle)
