Hello Pom Pom Lovers! We are very happy to host in our resort the Best Hatchery Practices Training organized by WWF Malaysia and Sabah Wildlife Department! The aim of the training is to improve the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of all the participants. We had very informative talks about sea turtle [...]
Hello Pom Pom Lovers, You may have already heard about our sea turtle conservation program :) Sea turtles are under threat in the world’s oceans and are officially listed as threatened by IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature). Pom Pom Island is an important nesting and feeding sites for Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) [...]
Hello Pom Pom Lovers! It’s time to celebrate here in Pom Pom! At the end of Semporna Hari Penyu (Semporna Turtle Day), we renew our Memorandum of Understanding with the amazing Sabah Wildlife Department for Pom Pom Island Turtle Hatchery! A huge thank you go to WWF-Malaysia for the (almost) daily help!! Our marine biologist Oriana and reservation [...]
Yesterday afternoon, a green turtle nest adopted by Anuska, finally hatched!! More than 60 hatchlings have been released to the sea during high tide. As always, was a spectacular event for all the guests who joined the release... I am very much happy to share these precious moments with you all. Keep supporting conservation [...]
Hello Pom Pom Lovers! We had a very lucky day here at Pom Pom Island Resort! A Green Turtle and Hawksbill Turtle babies, hatch from their nest en masse and then rush to the sea all together to increase their chances of survival against predators. We release in total more than 200 baby turtles. [...]
Pom Pom Island houses one of the major turtle nesting & hatchery in Malaysia The turtle season is starting and you will have the unique opportunity to see the young hatchlings release! Come and join us!! for more info check out our Facebook page Pom Pom Island Resort or contact oriana@pompomisland.com [...]
A big thank you to our turtle sponsor Vivian for adopting a green turtle nest! When we find a sea turtle nests we protect it! On occasion, we need to relocate the nests. This could be because the eggs were laid too close to the water: if turtle eggs are often under water, they [...]
26 Apr 2015, one of the turtle nests hatched at 5:15pm. This is the nest collected by our turtle staff : Palson on 23 Feb. 2015年4月26日， 其中一个海龟蛋在下午5:15孵化。 这些海龟蛋是我们的海龟保护人员，Palson在2月23日拾取的。 10 of the green turtle babies were back to the sea supported by by our house guests from China, France and Malaysia. Some more baby [...]
This evening, we released 13 more green baby turtle to the sea after 45 of them been released on the 27th December 2011. This is the last nest of the year 2011. Almost all in house guest involved in releasing the baby turtles. They were enjoyed to see the baby turtles race to [...]
Last week on the 22nd Dec 2011, an adopted baby turtles of our heavy repeater guest Kazu san and Tomoko san were born. They start to come out around 11.40am but we release them in the afternoon around 5.30pm to reduce the predation attack. We placed them in a good condition, cold and [...]
