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Project of Crown of Thorns starfish clear up

~Sally’s Diary~
Miles Grogan and Yoko volunteered today to help the Dive Centre with our project of Crown of Thorns starfish clear up.  We went to Mantabuan to re-check a previous site where there had been a Crown of Thorns starfish removal session in the summer.  There were still some young ones there, we collected around [...] Read more »

SEAGRASS PROTECTION

~Sally’s Diary~
Sally went with the WWF to their training session on 28.Feb for learning to survey the sea grass at Mataking Island.  Its very important part of our eco system which needs to be monitored, for without it, the turtles and many other life forms would suffer.  We need the sea grass to be healthy here [...] Read more »

WWF ADESSIUM MEETING

~Sally’s Diary~
On the 23rd of February, we hosted the WWF Adessium meeting on behalf of Gavin Jolis, the meeting was attended by Dato Panglima and his daugher, Nino Ho, WWF, Jan Versteegh WWF Netherlands, Ken Kassem, (WWF),Dr Arun Venkataraman, WWF Malaysia, Sharon Ng Lay Har, WWF Malaysia, Angela Lim Lee Hee, WWF Malaysia , Pieter [...] Read more »

WWF MEETING

~Sally’s Diary~
Everyone at the Dive Centre and Resort is very excited about the visit from the WWF sponsors all the way from the Netherlands.  They are coming here on the 23rd to inspect our hatchery, visit our snorkelling reefs and also listen to a talk by Gavin on turtle protection and other works that we [...] Read more »

TURTLE EGGS

~Sally’s Diary~
Yunus and Noah were very pleased today to report the first turtle eggs of the New Year at Pom Pom, there had been tracks before but no eggs, but now we are happy to report that eggs have been successfully transferred to our hatchery.  The tracks in the sand were examined and we believe [...] Read more »