Around 1,000 baby sea turtles were released by a number of residents and tourists at Jambak Sand Beach in Padang on July 16.

Thirty-five-year-old Yose, the founder of this "sea turtle observation," said: "Since 2013, I have succeeded in helping approximately 60,000 turtles babies, who are hatched and released at this beach."

He added: "I continue to do this every Saturday and Sunday, and invite tourists. I teach them the importance of preserving sea turtles to balance the sea's habitat because jellyfish hunters damage the fish ecosystem."

By attracting tourists, Yose also wishes to positively impact the local economy.

approximately one thousand children of sea turtles released at sea in the action of releasing sea turtles carried out by a number of residents or tourists who came to the sand beach beach jambak 16 July 2020.

not only adults this action was also followed by children. Before releasing the turtle, the residents were given a number of education about the dangers of eating sea turtles, the benefits of preserving sea turtles for the sea carried out by Yose Starch Day. the joy of the residents and children who participated in the release saw the thousand turtles reach the waves and go to sea.


Yose said "since 2013, I have succeeded in approximately 60,000 children who are hatched and released in this sandbar beach."

This 35-year-old man added "I continue to do this action every Saturday and Sunday and invite tourists in this action, in order to teach them the importance of preserving sea turtles to balance sea habitat, because jellyfish hunters that damage the fish ecosystem"

yose is a young person who lives in sand dunes, in the Koto district of Padang city, he was the initiator of sea turtle observation, starting in 2013, who was touched by seeing sea turtles becoming more extinct and rarely seeing turtles lay their eggs on the beach near his home, he made a community we have to sell all of their belongings such as Vespa, cars and others to save turtle eggs that humans hunt, the proceeds from the sale of their goods are used to buy turtle eggs that fishermen get for observation or trying to hatch turtle eggs and release them into the sea again. the idea of ​​releasing sea turtles is done by yose by inviting beach tourists to provide education in the importance of preserving the lives of turtles and the dangers of eating turtle eggs, yose himself works as a food trader and his wife who are in front of observing the turtle see turtle. By attracting tourists by releasing the action, Yose wishes to also provide an economic impact on the local residents by the presence of tourists to take the action of releasing the sea turtles that he did.