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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GET SERIOUS AGAINST TURTLE EGG CONSUMPTION   At least once a year, volunteers from the Malaysian Nature Society assist local turtle conservation and management centres by cleaning up the premises, sprucing up turtle quarantine ponds and hatcheries, carrying out beach clean-ups and releasing turtle hatchlings. Our volunteers include children as young as two, in the hope that our efforts will go a little way towards ensuring the continued survival of these amazing and gentle marine animals. A lot of resources have gone into educating the local communities on the need to protect turtle populations, and discouraging littering, poaching and turtle egg consumption.   And this is what makes the incident in which Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Beluran UMNO Division Chief Datuk James Ratib were photographed dining at a restaurant in which large quantities of turtle eggs were served all the more disheartening and di...

PENCINTA ALAM DECEMBER 2015 ECO KIDS COLUMN HOLIDAY GIFT EXCHANGE ALTERNATIVES By Wong Ee Lynn ( wongeelynn@yahoo.com / gl.mnselangor@yahoo.com )     The end of the year is approaching, and with it comes Christmas, End-of-Year and New Year parties and family reunions. It is great to be able to spend time with family and friends, but having to buy gifts for everyone is rough on the pocket and the environment! Too often, we end up buying cheap trinkets because we have run out of money and ideas. This year, instead of buying more unnecessary gifts that will end up in landfills, do consider some of these alternatives to the traditional holiday gift exchange:     1. POOL TOGETHER MONEY FOR A WORTHY CAUSE Whether it's to provide Orang Asli families with Nokero solar light bulbs ( https://www.facebook.com/ProjectLightAHome/ ) or to raise funds for the endangered sun bear ( www.bsbcc.org.my/ ), announce your chosen cause ahead of time, put up posters and buntings explaining...