A reporter for The Star recently went on a turtle egg conservation trip to WWF’s Pulau Upeh turtle hatchery and wrote a report.

We had to dig up the eggs, and be very careful about breaking them. The eggs could not be shaken and must be kept vertical at all times. We carefully dug up the eggs and placed them in a polystyrene box filled with sand. I counted 108 eggs, a number which would have thrilled the punter but not the conservationist. Normally a turtle could lay up to 150 eggs.

I was taken to a back room where the turtle eggs were stored. The eggs were stored in boxes which were labelled with their estimated hatching time. It takes approximately 100 days for the eggs to hatch. But the fishermen who are paid to bring the eggs to the sanctuary sometimes bring them in too late.

Time for an MUW road trip to Melaka?