Every year it is celebrated as ‘World Sea Turtle Day’. These turtle conservation efforts are actively carried out through the cooperation of various parties by the Department of Fisheries Malaysia. These turtle conservation activities are comprised with research, enforcement, education as well as various activities with stakeholders. For your information, Turtles have existed since over 100 million years ago and are believed to be contemporaneous with the dinosaur era. It is a vertebrate animal in the reptile class under the Order Chelonia that belongs together with snakes, lizards, tortoises, spiders and Painted Terrapin. Turtles are a long-lived species and take between 20 to 50 years to mature depending on the species. Now our turtles are threatened and will most likely go extinct. So together we take care of the turtle habitat in the sea and on land (beach where turtles land to lay eggs). Happy Turtle Day!
