Save the Turtles | Your Help Needed!
Save the turtles of Terengganu! Please support our campaign!!!!
The turtle eggs of our islands are not protected at the moment as the turtle conservation project is not running. This is resulting in all the eggs being poached. It is still legal to sell turtle eggs in Terengganu (with the exception of leatherback eggs). We are asking the state government to make the sale and consumption of all marine turtle eggs illegal and to further protect the turtle eggs of the Perhentian Islands and beyond.
Please send an email to savetheturtles@watercoloursworld.com to register your support. We will hand all emails and a petition in at a later date. You only need to write a couple of sentences, such as:
I would like to ask the State of Terengganu to make the sale and consumption of all marine turtle eggs illegal and to install better protective measures to prevent the poaching of eggs from nesting turtles.
Email to savetheturtles@watercoloursworld.com with a suitable title.
Thanks 
April 27th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hello,
I am Ilya Houben from the Netherlands. I am owner/webmaster of a very popular Dutch travel website about Malaysia. I noticed the post at this weblog, and wrote a Dutch article about it:
http://nieuws.veelzijdigmaleisie.nl/duikschool-watercolours-perhentian-lanceert-campagne-voor-behoud-schildpadden-van-terengganu.htm
In August 2006 me and my girlfriend visited Perhentian for the first time. Before that we visited Malaysia numerous times. At Perhentian we got our first diving course at Watercolours. Our dive-instructor was Marc (Mark?), a very good and nice divemaster. We had a wonderful time at Perhentian, memories that last a lifetime.
We also encountered some less fun things during our visit, I stumbled upon a bucket with baby turtles. They were sold right out of the bucket at a small beachshop. I could not imagine anybody would buy a young turtle, though the fact that they were for sale wasn’t that good at all.
Good efforts, let’s hope it really pays off…
Regards, and again thank you for the great diving course!
Ilya & Sarianne