'Biscuit boy' also sells cookbook to save turtles

KUALA LUMPUR: A 11-year-old boy who has been donating the proceeds from the sale of his bread and cookies to save the endangered turtles has gone another step forward in his conservation quest.
Mohamad Iszuddin Izham has produced a cookbook where he shares the recipes of his bread and cookies, and believes he can raise more money to save these reptiles.
The Year Five SK Bandar Damansara pupil, who desires to be a marine biologist, said many other sea creatures also faced extinction.
"There is so much plastic in the oceans right now. It is sad, because it is anticipated that there will be more plastic in the future, more plastic than fish, in the sea. At that time, can we imagine what would happen to the sea creatures?" he asked.
Ocean researcher Bonnie Monteleone, in a video produced by NowThis, said there were currently five trillion pieces of plastic in the seas.
Record-breaking sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur warned in a report presented to the World Economic Forum that there would be more plastic waste than fish in the seas by 2050.
Mohamad Iszuddin has raised more than RM1,000 from the sale of his cookies for a turtle sanctuary in Terengganu.
News of his endeavour to help save turtles has reached Sabah and Sarawak as well. In Miri, Sarawak, a Petronas engineer purchased six boxes of his biscuits.
His effort had also earned praises from Malaysian international music sensation Yuna Zarai and local celebrity Datuk Eizlan Yusof who expressed support for his mission.
"My mom said Datuk Eizlan was a famous person. I was so happy when he said my cookies were good, and he even recorded a video for me to help raise awareness to save the turtles," Mohamad Iszuddin said.
From the proceeds of the sale of the cookbook, he hopes to raise more than RM3,000 for the Segari Turtle Sanctuary in Perak and the Walai Turtle Conservation Park in Sabah.
"I hope I can achieve my goal as I want to help save these endangered sea creatures," he said, adding that he planned to visit Segari in July or August.
Mohamad Iszuddin urged people to stop discarding litter into the sea as sea creatures could not differentiate between plastic or their food such as jellyfish.
"Please don't discard plastic into the sea as sea animals tend to confuse it with food and it would harm them," he pleaded. — Bernama