We are so near the end of the nesting season yet we are still finding so many nest. 2 nests were found in 2 consecutive days. 80 green turtle eggs were on the 24th and another 89 green turtle eggs found on the 25th. In total we have 7 nests in our hatchery with expected hatching dates [...]
On the 15th of October 2014, we deployed our 4th coral frame. We started out with a steel frame and after weeks of prepping we finally have a frame that is suitable for coral growth. We have many more frames to put down around our house reef in an attempt to restore our coral reef [...]
On the 12th of October 0530 hours we found a Hawksbill turtle nest! 83 Hawskbill turtle eggs was transferred to our hatchery. Another victory for the Pom Pom Island conservation team. The nest was sponsored the same day by Asian Trials Malaysia (A travel agency which is very keen on our conservation effort here at [...]
Yesterday, we brought a lovely couple who were very interested in our coral frame project for a dive around our house reef to have a look at our coral frames. They were amazed by the number of fish species(from lionfishes, moorish idols, huge butterfly fish to ghost pipefish even a green turtle swam past us) [...]
A green mother turtle landed on our beach on 2nd October at 10pm. We waited nearby for her to dig her nest and when she started laying her eggs we went in for a closer look. All in all she laid 121 eggs. And the eggs were transferred to our hatchery within 30 mins of [...]
Massive thank you to all the guests and the staff who joined the beach clean-up activity today. We woke up to a not so pretty day with some drizzle but as soon as the sun was out everybody was eager to come and make the beach prettier and safer for the turtles. Again big [...]
This is a critically endangered species and we were very lucky TRACC found the nest, and that the relocation was successful with a 73% hatching success and all but three hatchlings making it to the surface on their own. This nest had 132 eggs and 90 hatchlings made it to the sea and the rest [...]
Ms Jocelyn Sim made a very kind donation to our turtle conservation project by sponsoring a nest. The code for the nest sponsored is G.14.05.05.084. It is a green turtle nest with 84 eggs that will hatch between the 19th of June and the 14th of July.
We are very excited that the first turtle to be tagged this season has now returned. She was first seen on the 11th April when she laid a nest (86eggs) in sector B, she was tagged on the right flipper, BJ0805, and was measured, 95cm long and 84cm wide. She was spotted again in sector [...]
Yesterday was 5th May 2014, it is time to clean the corals frames. We visited Anaise Reef and clean it. Cleaning Anaise Reef The coral grows very fast, within 3 weeks they started to overgrown the cable tie. They did very well. The corals overgrown the cable tie Along the [...]
