Sarawak releases baby turtles into the sea

KUCHING: Sarawak releases between 100,000 and 200,000 baby turtles a year into the sea under a turtle conservation programme, but the survival rate was a mere 0.01% to 1%. 

“So, we are trying to produce as many baby turtles as possible to increase the turtle population,” said Sarawak Forestry’s biologist James Bali, when asked after a public talk on leatherback sea turtles here on Tuesday night.