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Our contact fisherman in Setiu, Ropi informed us of an exciting find on 3rd October 2009. A fishermen by the name of Yusof had caught a baby crocodile while he was fishing for prawns that night upstream of the Setiu River near Saujana.
As part of our Setiu River Terrapin Recovery Project, head-started river terrapins that have been equipped with microchips for individual identification are released into the Setiu River at one to three years of age. In order to monitor their progress in the river, the terrapins have to be recaptured, weighed and measured for increments in body weight and carapace (shell) length at regular intervals of time.
After several weeks of discussion and amendments between myself, our artist Yisin and Pelf, we have finally decided on the logo for our Turtle Conservation Centre.
We spent an afternoon with Tan Sri Dr. Salleh Mohd Nor, Turtle Conservation Centre’s co-founder in Penarik on the 11th of September 2009. Tan Sri was shown the site the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) team had helped us select for the TCC during their visit a week earlier.
