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Our new babies

Yup, we adopted TWO babies recently! River terrapin babies ;)

I got to know Pelf and her cool turtle conservationist job when she delivered an awesome talk in TEDxKL two months ago. Recently, she tweeted about the Adopt-A-Terrapin campaign by her team (Turtle Conservation Society of Malaysia) and it made me all so interested! (i’m always interested in everything #gogreen all this while, haven’t i? ;) )  So i immediately sign up to be a part of this wonderful cause. 

Fast facts:

• The word ‘turtle’ is a general term that can be applied to sea turtles, tortoises and terrapins.
• Terrapins live in the freshwater, tortoises live on land in dry conditions and sea turtles live in seawater. 
• River terrapin is listed as one of the most critically endangered turtle species in the world!

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About Clara & Izzy (our terrapins’ were named by Sarah, of course):

• Clara & Izzy were hatched in June 2011 and were approximately three-month-old when released into the Kemaman River on 7th October 2011. 
• They were among 84 river terrapins released that day. You can view the event {here}
• Clara & Izzy are identified by their own unique microchip number. Their body weight and shell length and width measurements given on the Certificate of Adoption were taken at the time of release. 
• TCS will attempt to monitor the performance of Clara & Izzy by recapturing them at regular intervals. So please pray that Clara & Izzy will survive in the river so we can see them all grown up and healthy next year! 

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Do read more about turtle conservation  {here}!