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THIS is a surprise! Sabah’s first-ever Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) barramundi project is shaping up as an exciting seafood investment on a 35-acre Sawit Kinabalu land in Langkon, Kota Marudu.

IS this a case of fatal attraction? Has the ancient beauty of hawksbill turtle tortoiseshell landed it in a population crisis and may prove its undoing? Population sizes of hawksbills have “sharply declined” due to many human factors but the  most profound is the harvest of its carapace scutes (bony scales) known as tortoiseshell or bekko, fuelled by the intensive shell trade on the tortoiseshell which is a luxury item used to make elegant combs and brushes, jewelry boxes and or...

THE eyebrow-raising verdict is out: The Asean Sustainable Tourism Award (Rural) 2022 goes to Walai Penyu Conservation Park, Libaran – an unsung island 40 minutes from Sandakan, which was excluded from the 1,740ha Turtle Islands Park Sabah set up between 1966 and 1968