Helen and David are our lovely Turtle sponsors from the UK, who have sponsored our nest of 101 Green Turtle eggs laid on the 4th of September. Helen and David joined our Patrol that night and were able to witness when the Mother Turtle laid her eggs! It was also another busy day at the [...]
Yesterday we had some new arrivals at the hatchery, it looks like being a busy week, as there are many nests due at the moment. One of the babies was born earlier, but released okay, then the rest came at 5pm, all very active, and released immediately to the sea.
Samuel and Robert, our young friends who recently came to visit Pom Pom, were very lucky a few nights ago when they were able to witness a large green turtle laying her eggs, the boys were so happy that they wanted to sponsor the nest! We will keep them up to date when their baby [...]
A big thank you to Ms.Gail & Mr.Paul & Mr.Keith who have very kindly sponsored our turtle nest which have been transferred to hatchery on 23.March. This latest nest is green turtle eggs, they will hatch in about 60 days. We want to thank you all very much for your kind support and look forward [...]
Our patrol found a green turtle nest , 93 eggs were carefully transferred to our hatchery beside Dive Centre. パトローラーがアオウミガメの巣から93個の卵を保護、93個の卵をダイブセンター脇のハッチャリー（卵の保護センター）へ無事に移送しました。 It is our first turtle nest in 2011 ! 2011年、最初の海亀の巣、ハッチャリーへ移送完了！
The dive centre staff have now finished replacing all the sand in our hatchery with fresh clean sand. Its been a long job, and heavy work, especially after a rain downfall, but now it is ready for the next season of turtle eggs. We have been patrolling on a regular basis, but currently there have [...]
This week, at the hatchery, our Turtle Patrol are busy replacing the old sand in the hatchery with fresh clean sand. The reason for this is that over time, the original sand becomes dirty and we start getting tree root and ant problems. Its a big job to take out all the sand, but the [...]
Last night on exactly 60 days, the first turtles of the New Year were born. These were the eggs that Mario and Raimond found in November, and we put in the hatchery on the 11th of November. It was a very good hatch again. This time from 89 eggs, we had 81 baby Green turtles, [...]
Just 10 minutes ago, 2 Green Turtle nests in our hatchery have just hatched out. Very punctual tonight, as they were found on the same day, and the nests both hatched only a few minutes apart. We saw the sand drop down in the first nest, not much happened for about 20 minutes, then suddenly, [...]
Phew, we have just finished a very busy 1 hour at the hatchery tonight! At 6pm, we noticed that there was some movement in one of our nests, as we started observing the sand moving, we saw the first baby Hawksbill turtle come up to the surface, after that it was very busy, as it [...]
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