Nurhartini releasing one of the green sea turtles weighing about 5kg. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star
AQUATIC Science PhD student Nurhartini Kamalia Yahya is having mixed feelings about saying goodbye to a group of sea turtles.
In June last year, the Penang-born scientist got a permit to collect 200 hatchlings from the Talang Besar island. She reared them at a family-run resort in Lundu, in two aquariums (when they were small), then in two ponds, with a constant supply of fresh seawater pumped in.
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