THE POPULATION OF THE TURTLE CONTINUES TO DECREASE

A number of volunteers check the location of the egg hatching type of relics or also called the gray turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the Kili-kili Penyu Conservation Area in Wonocoyo Village, Trenggalek, East Java, Friday (25/3). Based on the Conservation International report in 2004, calculated since 1982 the number of female turtles decreased 97 percent in two decades, from 115 thousand to less than 3000. ANTARA PHOTO/RFID Anshori/kye/16

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