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July 2011
Nesting has still been quite slow this month.
For the first time we have had families stay here and it has worked out very well as they have enjoyed themselves and have been helpful as well. It actually worked out that our first two families ever both came this month, only a few days apart.
We had a great volunteer from Bangladesh, a computer scientist and very passionate volunteer. It is great to see that type of ambition and motivation especially from such a different part of the world than volunteers usually come from. You can see a few videos by him, some of hatchlings, at our video channel on YouTube.com
We have also had a few volunteers get frustrated and they have actually left. The reasons have been fine with us, like there are not enough turtles, or there is not enough structure to the program here. So… The reason we are doing turtle conservation is because we noticed how few turtles there are, so FYI the Sea Turtles are critically endangered which means there are not very many of them, on Tioman or in the World.
As for the program, we give people plenty of guidance and ideas and help and provide limitless activities, but a huge focus here is personal motivation. Nobody makes us do this work, and we expect that people coming here can come up with some ideas on their own as well. We LOVE to facilitate other peoples ideas and help them to help the environment through our facility and resources.
Another note is that here, your days will not be filled with turtles. Or your nights. We live here in a way that purposefully does not mess up the environment too much, we have activities to promote sustainability and having fun outdoors. It is important to learn how to use nature and enjoy it without paving it and putting a couch on it. So that is what we do here, and because that is our view on life, we have noticed the problems that turtles are having and we are trying to help them out.
So if you come here, we would love to show you all we know about a whole variety of outdoors, kampung, water, conservation and nature activities; we don’t hold your hand through, we try to get you in the deep end and let you swim for yourself. And sometimes people end up just sitting on the side of the pool, which is fine, until they complain to us. 
All the best,
-c
