MALACCA: In a move to save the endangered Hawksbill turtle and to combat poachers, Malacca fisheries authorities are now paying collectors RM1.30 per egg so that they would not sell the eggs on the black market.
The fisheries department here was previously paying the state’s 16 licensed egg collectors RM1 per egg.
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