Sea Turtles

Singapore’s first turtle hatchery was opened at the Sisters’ Islands Marine Park in late September 2018. The hatchery is strategically located on Small Sister’s Island, a protected area zoned for conservation and research.

With only about 1 to 3 from each clutch of between 100 and 150 eggs surviving till adulthood

Locating the hatchery along the shores of the protected Sisters’ Islands Marine Park plays a crucial part in increasing their chances of survival. (no light pollution to disorientate them and no predators)

Turtle are commonly found nesting along the shores of East Coast, the eggs will then be transferred to Sisters Island due to threat from monster lizards

The name comes from their Hawk-like mouth

A temperature logger is used to ensure the eggs are kept in a 29°C environment, which is ideal to ensure a mix of male and female hatchlings. Too cold, and all the hatchlings will turn out male. Too hot, and all of them will be female, research found.

Hawkbill turtles feed on jellyfish and keep their populations in check. Plastic looks like jellyfish when it's floating in the water and that's why so many turtles die from ingesting plastic—they were going for a tasty snack.

Green turtles use the earth's magnetic field like an invisble map to navigate throughout their migrations

like other marine turtles, female green turtles return to the same beach where they hatched to nest.

The green turtle is the largest species of hard-shelled turtles, and is the second largest of all sea turtles.

Green turtles are named after their green-colored fat, which they get from their herbivorous diet of seagrass and algae.