Just-hatched baby turtles placed in a pool at the Segari Conservation and Information Centre.
THE Perak government should expedite plans to gazette the turtle-landing site in Segari, Manjung as a protected area, environmentalists say.
Non-governmental organisation Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) field officer Meor Razak Meor Abdul Rahman said environmental groups have been pushing for the coastal area from Pantai Pasir Panjang to Tanjung Hantu – the main turtle-landing site in Perak – to be gazetted since 2013.
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Meor Razak: It is pointless to have the Segari Turtle Conservation and Information Centre when the landing site is not protected.
SAM has conducted ‘ambong- ambong’ planting exercises at Pantai Pasir Panjang. The plant is part of the green turtle’s diet.
Turtle beach: The beautiful Pantai Pasir Panjang, which is part of the turtle-landing site in Segari.
Cleaning of the Pasir Panjang beach initiated by SAM in March 2020, before the movement control order was implemented.
SAM has been organising activities such as beach cleaning, the release of turtle hatchlings, as well as planting of ambong-ambong (sea lettuce) saplings at the site for the past eight years.
Back to sea: A volunteer releasing baby turtles near Segari Turtle Conservation and Information Centre in March last year.
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