If you wonder whether we still have leatherback turtle here, I have a good news for you.
The biggest turtle from all the 7 types of sea turtles are coming back to Rantau Abang Terengganu, Malaysia!
With the size of up to 2 m and weight of more than 500 kg, one leatherback turtle is reported to nesting the egg in Rantau Abang beach on the 16 July 2010.
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This endangered species nested 69 eggs in Rantau Abang on the 16th July 2010. Their nesting seasons is between May to August yearly. In Malaysia, this species (leatherback turtle), or Dermochelys Coriacea only can be found in Terengganu (and rarely in Pahang).
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I have visited the Rantau Abang Turtle Information Centre today and have a conversation with the staffs here. According to them, there are also two other occassion that the leatherback turtle landing on the beach this month but ending up not nesting the egg.
All the eggs were being put in the special container (with beach sand) for hatching purposes.
Hopefull we can see the baby turtles (leatherback) just like the baby turtles for Green Turtles as per below picture (one day old Green Turtles baby):
I have a lot more to share about the Rantau Abang Turle Information Centre in Terengganu, Malaysia. You can learn a lot here about turtles.
But in this post, I would like to share a good news about leatherback turtle. Hopefully, we can grow the numbers and more turtles will come back here!
I will share with you a a lot more in my posting here. Stay tune.. and don’t forget to visit Terengganu, Malaysia.
See you soon!
note: All the pictures were snapped during my visit to the centre (exhibition hall): picture and turtle replica.
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Great, I never knew this, thanks.
Thanks
after the first landing, the leatherback came again after 10 days – and lay in some more egg in Rantau Abang (Batu Pelandok Beach area).
I always inspired by you, your thoughts and way of thinking, again, appreciate for this nice post.
- Murk
This is very good news, do they hatch the babies and then just release them?
Is there any way to contact the Fisheries department via email? I’ve been reading on the net in some countries they are trying to rear Leatherbacks in captivity. I don’t know much but I would think if the turtles are bigger in size if we do release them chances of them surviving much higher no?
If anyone can provide further information I’d like that very much.
Thanks Wai Meng! Yes, they hatch the babies and just release them on the 1st or 2nd day. We have a lot of Green Turtles hatchling (thousands released to the open sea). However, for Leatherbacks, we ( I mean Fisheries Dpt
) collect the eggs, unfortunately the eggs not produce the babies.
Probably it’s an alternative to rear the turtles in captivity – the issue is whether they can survive in wild to get the food when the were “spoon fed” during their “stays” in captivity.
The struggles to conserve the turtles not only require the good care for the eggs, but they are facing the challenge to survive as peoples in other countries hunts the turtles for the meat!
If the eggs are infertile then the species is as good as doomed in Malaysia right, I read another post you posted that the eggs don’t produce babies thats very sad. Are there any nest along the east coast that the eggs produce babies or all no babies?