The children gathered excitedly around the table, admiring the marine life figures made out of plasticine. Most of them were turtles — a turtle laying eggs, a turtle swimming in the sea and a hatchling crawling out of its egg.
The state’s first ever river terrapin tracking project has got off to a good start. A three-year-old terrapin was tagged with an ultrasonic tracking device on Monday, and it was found the following day about 200 metres upstream from where it was released at Pak Lah Teh.
Sand mining operations at Tebing Pasir Penarik, here, will not affect the area designated for the nesting site of river terrapins, said State Agriculture and Regional Development committee chairman Datuk Mohd Jidin Shafee.
Fifty river terrapins were released into the Setiu River during the third annual Terrapin Independence Day ceremony.
Efforts to conserve river terrapins, which have been categorised as among the top 25 most endangered species in the world, are showing signs of success.
