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Turtle Conservation Dec

Project Name:	Melaka Turtle Conservation Project
Date:	10 Dec 2005
Venue:	Melaka
Project Leader:	Joe Quah info@raleighinternational.org.my
Members:	Jason Chung, Justin Jeyaraj, Ling, Kuna, Hema, Amy Liew, Celine, Cindy Goh & Joe Quah
Project Partner:	WWF Malaysia
Brief:	Group Charlie went for the Turtle Conservation project last weekend and we really enjoyed ourseves. Its my first time since being coordinator for 4 IWs that I actually met up with the whole group (or almost whole group) again after IW. I thought that was cool. Usually people go their own ways after that. 9 people attended this project. We did lots of digging sand (80 cm deep) to bake the bottom layer sand, killing all microbes and bacteria. Also the sand needed to be sieved from rocks and rubbish like polistyrine and plastic straws. Some of our members even helped Min Min (the WWF scientist) with excavation of rotten eggs. The eggs were opened (imagine the smell!) to examine the development stage of the embryo inside. Most could not be identified, but some were halfway there. And, we went on a banana boat!