JOMALIG, Quezon – A large sea turtle (pawikan) was rescued and returned to the sea in Sitio Sadong, Barangay Talisoy, this town, on July 30. Village councilor Antonio Acunin and his brothers Marcial and Jojo noticed their three dogs barking incessantly and discovered a sea turtle that crawled...
CEBU CITY – Another batch of green sea turtle hatchlings successfully emerged from a protected nesting site on Alona Beach in Barangay Tawala, Panglao, Bohol. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Central Visayas (DENR-7) described the emergence of 162 hatchlings on Thursday, July...
BUTUAN CITY – A rescued female Green Sea Turtle was released back to sea in Carrascal, Surigao del Sur on Thursday. In a statement on Friday, the local government unit (LGU) of Carrascal said the marine turtle was found by a deputized fish warden (Bantay Dagat) while conducting a routine seaborne...
CEBU CITY – From the nesting site to the sea. This was the success story of the 79 endangered green sea turtle hatchlings that safely reached the sea in Panglao, Bohol on Monday night, June 15. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Central Visayas (DENR-7) said the successful...
PAGUDPUD, Ilocos Norte – Wildlife volunteers on Sunday rescued a distressed green sea turtle weighing 10.4 kilograms in Sitio Dialao in Barangay Caparispisan in this municipality. Raymond Sesuca, Corporate Social Responsibility manager of North Luzon Renewable Energy Corp., told the Philippine...
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...
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...
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...
