Malaysia Try To Clone Endangered Turtles

Malaysia is launching a 9 million ringgit project to clone some of its endangered turtles especially the leatherback turtles. Leatherback turtles used to be found at Rantau Abang, Terengganu. But as the years pass by, their number has decreased tremendously together with other species of turtles.

Their number are decreasing because of the illegal hunting of turtles where fisher mans kill them to make souvenirs out of their shells, selling their meat to restaurant and also their eggs, pollution and development of coastal areas.



Malaysia have ban the selling of turtle eggs but there was one period where traders sell turtle eggs from the neighbouring countries of Malaysia. However, they have been stopped when many people start to protest.