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Donate to help save our sea turtles and receive a tax exemption receipt.
The 2025 global IUCN Red List reclassification of green turtles from ‘Endangered’ (since 1982) to ‘Least Concern’ in October 2025 is an encouraging milestone for sea turtle conservation. It signals that decades of coordinated protection, monitoring, and persistence have begun to turn the tide globally.
However, serious threats to turtles remain. Let’s not forget: in the 1950s, Rantau Abang once saw 10,000 leatherback turtle nests a year. By 2017, they were gone.
Green turtles are recovering, but we cannot let our critically endangered hawksbill turtles face the same fate as the leatherback turtles, or let the progress of green turtles reverse.
This significant progress for our green turtles will only hold if we continue strengthening efforts to sustain what Malaysia and the world have worked so hard to achieve
All our progress could be reversed if we do not step up our conservation efforts because sea turtles are still facing severe threats:
At Sea:
- Accidental capture in fishing gear (bycatch)
- Turtle poaching or direct-take at foraging grounds
On Land:
- Illegal collection of turtle eggs
- Coastal development and beach erosion
- Bright artificial lights
Habitat Loss:
- Seagrass beds and nesting beaches damaged
Together with our generous supporters and strategic partners, we have demonstrated that we can turn the tide for turtles.
Please make a donation today and help WWF-Malaysia and our partners strengthen and sustain our vital turtle conservation efforts:
- Monitor and patrol nesting beaches to minimise the poaching of turtle eggs.
- Conduct research to understand sea turtle habitats and biology to enhance conservation efforts.
- Tackle wildlife trade by using cutting-edge technologies, such as genetic and satellite tracking to strengthen conservation management, research, and enforcement efforts.
- Strengthen conservation from nest to foraging grounds across state and national boundaries. Identifying migration routes and protecting foraging grounds is just as important as protecting nesting sites to conserve turtles at all stages of life.
- Expand community-driven approaches, supported by science-based tools and long-term partnerships, which is one of the best ways to sustain protection over time. When local people lead, turtles thrive.