Every agenda that took part in our lives needed commitment. We need to sacrifice and make ways for things to happen even if it is the least important to us. It is how we were taught and trained to be since a child. How responsibility and ethics played a role to bring us to where we are today. Don't you realize that?
It's a form of discipline.
This applies in conservation work. It is mostly driven by those who have the passion but lack the resources. Conservationists are among the most hardworking people on Earth. They work their mind, body and soul for the benefit of others.
I'm citing this example from the M'sia's turtle conservation project, Turtle Research and Rehabilitation Group. It was formerly known as Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU). Prof Chan Eng Heng from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu is the heart of the group. Throughout the years, she headed the task in saving the lives of depleting marine turtles and conduct various programs to help spread the message across. Her generous effort came a long long way. It took Malaysian a few decades to realize that we are actually losing our own natural resources.
It is not often that you see successful conservation effort thriving in the long-run. Especially when problems never lost their way in you! Conservation is a tasking and tiring effort. With turtles, you work when they come to you and we don't go all out to the open sea and barge into them. No!
We silently compose ourselves in the middle of the night til morning just to wait for them to come ashore. Brushing away sand flies, mosquitoes and insects of all sorts just to wait for females to lay their precious eggs. Never giving up though there might not be a single turtle nesting for that particular week. Speed, reliability, observance and passion is needed to finalise the work.
Do you wish to join the effort in combating the turtle's lost? Thrilled seeing baby turtles making it's way to the rough sea? Be a volunteer and experience yourself the joy of saving turtle eggs.
I'm citing this example from the M'sia's turtle conservation project, Turtle Research and Rehabilitation Group. It was formerly known as Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU). Prof Chan Eng Heng from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu is the heart of the group. Throughout the years, she headed the task in saving the lives of depleting marine turtles and conduct various programs to help spread the message across. Her generous effort came a long long way. It took Malaysian a few decades to realize that we are actually losing our own natural resources.
It is not often that you see successful conservation effort thriving in the long-run. Especially when problems never lost their way in you! Conservation is a tasking and tiring effort. With turtles, you work when they come to you and we don't go all out to the open sea and barge into them. No!We silently compose ourselves in the middle of the night til morning just to wait for them to come ashore. Brushing away sand flies, mosquitoes and insects of all sorts just to wait for females to lay their precious eggs. Never giving up though there might not be a single turtle nesting for that particular week. Speed, reliability, observance and passion is needed to finalise the work.
- A determined mind battling just to keep droopy eyes awake.
- Much needed patience to dig up eggs buried deep into the sand all night long.
- A will to transfer eggs with repetition-done only with guarded care and gentleness.
- A combating effort to find the unobserved nests before it's taken by illegal egg collectors.
- A daredevil spirit to go face-to-face with nasty egg poachers armed with parang.
Can you do it?
Do you wish to join the effort in combating the turtle's lost? Thrilled seeing baby turtles making it's way to the rough sea? Be a volunteer and experience yourself the joy of saving turtle eggs.
Ooops! Only if you managed to grab a spot for yourself for the year. HOT SEATS!!!
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