Marine Turtle status Report - Indian Ocean - South-East Asian ...

Table 12: Summary of nesting data for Green and Hawksbill turtles on Pom-PomIsland in 2010GreenHawksbillTotal number of nests 13 13Total number of eggs 1230 1792Range number of eggs per40-148 83-186nestTotal number of hatchlings 827 1359Range number of hatchlings0-106 50-155per nestAverage hatching success67.2 75.8rate (%)Range hatching success rate 0.0-95.5 32.6-95.0per nest (%)Range incubation days 47-60 29-625.3.3 Pandanan IslandThe local community on Pandanan Island were involved in turtle conservationsince November 2009 with the provision of awareness, consultation and hatcherytraining by WWF-Malaysia to increase their understanding on the importance ofturtle conservation. The training led Datu Pengiran Ahmad’s family to build aturtle hatchery in March 2010. His daughters patrol the nesting beaches earlymorning everyday. Once a nest is found, the eggs are placed in a hatchery as soonas possible and the nest is labelled. The hatchery was damaged by strong waves inFebruary 2011. Nine Green and eight Hawksbill turtle nests were recorded as wellas a single Olive Ridley turtle nest (Figure 19).Number of Green, Hawksbill and Olive Ridley turtles nests onPandanan island for 2010Number of nests1086420Green Haw ksbill Olive RidleySpeciesFigure 19: Number of Green, Hawksbill and Olive Ridley turtle nests on Pandanan Island for 201033