12/06/2026
Happy World Ocean Day, let’s show our sea turtles some love this month!
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. Together with our generous supporters and partners, we have shown that we can turn the tide for turtles.
However, serious threats to turtles remain. 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, nor let the progress of green turtles reverse. We should continue efforts to sustain what Malaysia and the world have worked so hard to achieve.
Please donate at wwf.org.my/turtle2026 to 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.
Thank you for helping to save our sea turtles.
