Satang Island
Satang Island is one of Sarawak's turtle islands. Every year during a period from approximately May to September female turtles come up on the beach at Satang Island to lay eggs.
Sarawak Forestry has park rangers based on the island during that period. Their job is to patrol the beach, collect eggs and transfer the eggs to a safer hatching area. When the eggs finally hatch the rangers collect the turtle babies and release them in the sea.
The hatching area is fenced off to protect the eggs.
I was on the island together with some of my colleagues and we were lucky to witness a mother turtle come up on the beach, dig a hole and lay her eggs during the night. After she had returned to the sea we helped the park ranger to dig up the eggs and transfer them to the hatching area, which is fenced off to protect the eggs against monitor lizards and other egg thieves.
During the same night one of the nests was hatching and we helped the ranger to release the baby turtles in the sea. The ranger gave us one baby turtle each and we carried it down until we were some meters from the water line. There we released the babies and they speeded off to the sea. This was a very memorable experience!
Mama turtle.
They might look like golf balls, but it's turtle eggs!
The morning after we could see turtle tracks in the sand.
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didin jirat
All the best to the survivor turtles....so beatiful
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