Hi everybody.....as promised to my self i manage to make a year reservation and saving for this trip...its an economy budget...some of them call bag packer travel, others said self travel.....well its great and good...meet most of foreigner...Canadian, United States Of America, Australian, New Z eland, UK, Scotland and also Singapore...you know something...I felt like in oversea when i was there...oh my goodness!!!....I wondering what happen to our local people?..are they not enjoy these kind of life or they can't be bother to see our beautiful nature???...perhaps one day before it to late most of them can see the beauty of Underworld....
Sipadan Island is a dream for every diver to see how beautiful is the reef coral...black tip shark playing and swimming beneath....green turtle and others fishes are having a great time...barracuda having the pride and show...... stingray enjoy the Blue.....it really beautiful...the reef and wall full of coral and sea creature....no wonder every diver dying to go there....a part of that...Malbul and Kapalai are great too...I hope it can be the same for another 100 years or forever and ever.....generation forthcoming...Save them all
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The report was commissioned by the National Marine Fisheries Service as a result of petitions from environmental groups, who say the government is moving too slowly to protect loggerheads and have sued to force stronger actions.
Many of the study's authors work for the federal agencies that will decide whether to change its status to endangered.
For the first time, the study called for dividing loggerhead populations into nine distinct global populations, a potentially key recommendation that would allow each to be studied and protected as a separate species.
It said seven of those nine populations are in danger of extinction, including two along US coasts.
Aside from fishing, the report said other major threats include coastal development that disrupts nesting, such as erosion-control barriers and other structures that prevent mothers from nesting and bright lights that can disorient hatchlings.
The animals and their eggs are also still hunted for consumption in some parts of the world, the report said, and will likely be threatened by changing sea levels from climate change, which could wash away nesting habitat.
The US and other countries already have adopted a number of protections, but the report said their effectiveness has been incomplete. -- AP====================================================================
Below are the news from local news paper- The Straits Times Singapore
 |  | Loggerheads have been listed as a threatened species since 1978. -- PHOTO: AP |
WASHINGTON - IT'S A scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch.
Biologists like Matthew Godfrey say one or two such takings can happen every day among fishing fleets off the Southeast coast. Those numbers can add up to thousands annually for a turtle species that has travelled the oceans for 200 million years but now faces a growing array of threats.
Dr Godfrey is among the authors of the latest federal report on loggerheads that says most of the ancient reptile is at risk of extinction - in large part due to increased commercial fishing.
The study, released last month, predicted broad population declines across the globe in the coming years, including in a nesting area along the southeastern United States that is one of the world's largest.
'Unfortunately, a lot of times the target fish habitat and the turtle habitat overlap,' said Dr Godfrey, of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. 'The turtles are air breathers, so they need to get to the surface, but if they're tangled up in the net, they can't get to the surface, and they essentially drown.'
Loggerheads have been listed as a threatened species since 1978.
This latest report puts new pressure on the government to upgrade their status to endangered and further restrict commercial fisheries.
But even the increased awareness that an endangered listing would bring might not save the turtles, which migrate thousands of miles through the sea.
Meaningful protections require broad global cooperation given the turtles' far-flung travels. Fishing operators already are chafing under regulations aimed at protecting the animals, and further restrictions could draw strong opposition and fresh concerns about hurting coastal economies.
'These trends are very difficult to reverse. It's like turning a big battleship,' said Blair Witherington, a research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who helped write the report. 'We really ought to be doing it now.' -- AP
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