CASIGURAN, Aurora – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) successfully rescued and released an Olive Ridley sea turtle accidentally caught in fishing gear off the coast of Barangay Lual in Casiguran, Aurora. In a news release on Monday, the DENR stated that concerned citizens...
PUDTOL, Apayao – A critically endangered freshwater turtle is being rehabilitated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in Calanasan, this province, after it was rescued in Barangay Capanikkian here Thursday. Known...
A 47-year-old man died after allegedly eating a snake turtle in Barangay 6, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The victim experienced chest pain and difficulty breathing after consuming the reptile. The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO)...
BUTUAN CITY – A male Olive Ridley turtle was found dead Wednesday afternoon by residents in the coastal Barangay Punta Bilar in Surigao City. Personnel from the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) were immediately dispatched to the area for investigation and found that the...
ILOILO CITY – One-hundred young Olive ridley sea turtles were recently released at world-famous Boracay Island in Malay town, Aklan province. ONE-HUNDRED young Olive Ridley turtles were released at world-famous Boracay Island recently. (DENR-6 CENRO Boracay) The Department of Environment and...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has directed the municipality of Turtle Islands in Tawi-Tawi to set up a responsibility center for its gender and development (GAD) Focal Point System (GFPS) for the accounting and monitoring of GAD-related expenses and financial transactions. In its 2023 audit on...
ATIMONAN, Quezon – The remains of a leatherback sea turtle was found in the seashore of Barangay Caridad Ibaba here on Labor Day. THE remains of a leatherback sea turtle were found at Coco Pier in Barangay Caridad Ibaba in Atimonan, Quezon on Labor Day. (Photo via Danny Estacio) The...
BACOLOD CITY – Sixty green sea turtle hatchlings were released back to the sea in a beach resort in Barangay Nauhang, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on Monday, February 5. SIXTY green sea turtle hatchlings were released back to the sea in a beach resort in Barangay Nauhang, Sipalay City,...
SANCHEZ MIRA, Cagayan – An endangered Olive ridley sea turtle was rescued here on Sunday night, January 14. Residents of Barangay Namuac saw the stranded female turtle on the beach and immediately reported their discovery to authorities. AN Olive ridley sea turtle was rescued on Sunday,...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-6 (Western Visayas) released 113 young Olive Ridley sea turtles at world-famous Boracay Island in Malay town, Aklan province at the start of the New Year. “It gives us hope that these hatchlings were safely released into...
DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Vice President Sara Duterte led the release of 152 hatchlings of the critically endangered hawksbill turtle to their natural habitat on the coastline of the Aboitiz Cleanergy Park in Punta Dumalag, Matina Aplaya here on Tuesday afternoon, September 12. Duterte, joined by...
At least 152 newly-hatched Hawksbill turtles were released to the sea in Punta Dumalag, Matina Aplaya in Davao City on Tuesday, Sept. 12. (Photo from Inday Sara Duterte Facebook page) Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte together with students saw the endangered baby turtles returned...
