Cryptocurrency funding to the fore of Libaran turtle conservation efforts


KOTA KINABALU: A cryptocurrency company has stepped in to play a significant role in Sabah's turtle conservation efforts as funding from pandemic-hit travel companies dwindles.

United States-based AquaGoat Finance is chipping in to help Friends of Sea Turtles Education & Research (Foster) in its annual community clean-up of the state's east coast Libaran shoreline, the focus of turtle conservation efforts since 2004.

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