The Voyage of Our Turtles: MY3267/MY3268

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Location and movement of MY3267/MY3268

Turtle Name:
MY3267/MY3268
Not officially named yet.

Current Location
West of Pulau Kukup, Johor, Malaysia
as of 29 September 2008

Deployment Location
Kem Terendak Beach, Melaka

Deployment Date
12 August 2008

Flipper Tag Numbers
MY3267/MY3268

Curved Carapace Length (Shell Length)
71.5 cm

Curved Carapace Width (Shell Width)
65.5 cm

Weight
42 kg

Biography

MY3267/MY3268 was deployed with a transmitter after her second nesting with the help of the army personnel of Kem Terendak. This is the second year of WWF-Malaysia's monitoring program at Kem Terendak where tagging and the collection of eggs are done in the 2.5km stretch of beach. Eggs collected are sent to a hatchery managed by the Department of Fisheries at Padang Kemunting.

She came back on 26 August 2008 for her third nesting at Balik Batu, an adjacent beach to Kem Terendak, but by the time we arrived, she had already been moved from the nest pit she made and her eggs poached by the villagers. However, she crawled safely back to sea that night and returned to nest twice, including her final nest for the season. She seems to be on the move travelling south bound in the straits of Melaka.