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Marine Turtle Newsletter 9:5, © 1978

Tourists to Pay for Turtle Watching in Malaysia

N. Mrosovsky

According to information published in the New Straits Times, 3 August 1978, licensed egg collectors in the Rantau Abang leatherback turtle nesting area will be permitted to charge fees to tourists. Some licensees pay as much as $12,700 USA per year for a stretch of beach, and they lose about $17 USA in revenue from sale of eggs for each turtle scared away.