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You know, Jeff, these shots evoked a strange sense of ...hope in the midst of the negativity and helplessness in the recent years. Thanks.

Yes, cherish it little turtles for the experience, you form your experience, you form your past, your present, and your future.
Each self or identity in nature retains the cellular memory of the state of agony before their release into actuality, and so each consciousness is driven toward survival, change development and creativity. Entities, being action, always shift in change. There is nothing arbitrary about their boundaries. Nature constantly creates versions of itself. Like fish, they can swim in water, birds can fly and these leatherback turtles live on land and sea. Within them is the knowledge of all of their relationships of earthly life.
A cat playfully killing a mouse and eating it is NOT evil. It suffers no guilt. On biological levels, both animals understand the roles they play. This does not mean they will not struggle to live, but they have a built-in unconsciousness sense of unity with nature.
So to kill is to be killed. The balance of life sustains all. We ARE to preserve life consciously, then, as the animals preserve it Unconsciously.

These little fellas remind me alot of us. We go home for Raya/Deepavali/CNY, we go home for b'days etc. Just like these little turtles, we always go back to our roots.

oh gosh... Jeff, read this - http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/10/28/nation/15849450&sec=nation&focus=1

I think that i read somewhere that the reason we don't have leatherbacks anymore is because those incompetent fools in the department responsible (Wildlife?)literally put all the eggs in one basket.

It seems that the gender of the baby turtle depends on the incubation temperature and the buffoons blissfully went about making a whole bunch of male (or was it female) turtles for a number of years without realising the problem.

Either way, we don't leatherbacks no more, and it wasn't because of those silly cartoons with leatherbacks looking like mobsters being engaged in some sort of tourism campaign back in the 90s, I think.

Are the locals still collecting and selling turtle eggs? If so, they should stop as I don't agree that the locals will be starving to death without this collection and selling (as food for consumption) of these eggs. Is the govt still supporting this stupid action?

JEFF OOI says: The fact is, sadly, the locals still do collect and sell turtle eggs. I was offered some when I stopped by to buy dried keropok in Marang.