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2nd
ASEAN Symposium and Workshop on
Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation
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SESSION
1: Management and Conservation
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ABSTRACTS
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Current
Status of Marine Turtle Conservation in Peninsular
Malaysia
K. Ibrahim, K.H.W. Phang,
and A.R. Kassim
The earliest conservation measure
to control and protect marine turtles was introduced in 1932 in one of
the States on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Since then, a number
of similar legislative and non-legislative efforts were introduced at both
the state and the federal levels to conserve these endangered marine reptiles.
However, such efforts seem unable to restrain the rapid decline of all
four species of marine turtles found in the Peninsula. This report attempts
to update the population status and the various conservation initiatives
undertaken in the Peninsula during a period after the first ASEAN symposium-workshop
on marine turtle conservation held in Manila, Philippines in 1993. |
