SANDAKAN: The Turtle Islands Park (TPPP) located about 40 kilometres from here has been instrumental in turtle conservation since 1966.
TPPP encompasses three islands - Pulau Selingaan, Bakkungan Kechil and Gulisaan - covering an area of 1,740 hectares. The first turtle hatchery in Malaysia was commissioned in Pulau Selingaan in 1966. Two years later the two other islands also started their own hatcheries.
Pulau Gulisaan is the main landing point for the Hawksbill turtle in Southeast Asia. Another species that makes its way to TPPP is the Green Turtle.
Realising how important the marine habitat is, the Sabah state government bought over the three islands and turned it into a marine park in 1977. Since then it has been under the care of the Sabah Parks, an agency under Sabah’s Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry.
Continue reading at: Sabah leads way in turtle conservation
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This is very interesting. Similar turtle conservation is going on in Lamu, and island off the north of Kenya you can read about it here http://lamumarine.wildlifedirect.org/
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