Twenty years ago when the leatherback turtles came to our beaches to nest, does anybody remember what WE did to them?! We rode on them, we partied at the nesting beaches, with loud music and disco lights, we shone torchlights, we took pictures with flash, and we collected the turtle eggs.
So now when the leatherback turtles are fast becoming extinct, this happens.
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) School of Biological Sciences deputy dean Prof Dr Zulfigar Yasin, shown a picture of the jellyfish found in Pantai Kerachut, said he believed that it was a species of the box jellyfish family.
“We want to know its habitat, and where and when these jellyfish are found in Penang waters,” he said.
He said they hoped to find a solution on what they could do to protect tourists and promote marine tourism.
Protect tourists and promote marine tourism?! It is now a bit too late, don’t you think so?
Serves us all right!
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Serves the gahmen right for not actively preserving the leatherbacks. Now they’re paying for it with happy jellyfishes washing up to shore and swimming around unpredated in the sea and such and they can’t even figure out why even though an episode of Captain Planet clearly pointed this out way before. They should watch more cartoons hehe
pelf: Ouh, so now it sounds (to me) that cartoons are indeed educational. Like Happy Feet and how the cartoon got linked to what is really happening - us humans terrorizing the penguins’ territories and dumping wastes that could kill them. I digress