KOTA KINABALU: A turtle conservationist is offering RM10,000 to anyone who can help provide information on people involved in serving endangered turtle eggs at a reunion dinner linked to a family member of a former assemblyman. The conservationist, Alexander Yee, said he was making the offer in support of the Sabah Wildlife Department's efforts to catch and convict people involved in allegedly serving turtle eggs at the dinner. Yee was pleased that the state government had ordered a full investigation into the claims that family members of a former assemblyman had served turtle eggs at a Chinese New Year reunion dinner recently. Jafry had said that investigators said that without hard evidence of the physical turtle eggs, it would be difficult to get a conviction based on pictures posted on social media. Yee said that Foster and Sabah Wildlife had been working together under a five-year Memorandum of Understanding for sea turtle conservation works at Libaran Island in Sandakan since July 2018.

Source: The Star February 19, 2021 07:10 UTC