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Therma South, Inc. (TSI) recently released 67 Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings from their first nest in Binugao, Toril, ...
In Photo: Environmental activist Alexandra Cousteau with a green marine turtle during a visit to explore Apo Reef last year ... locally known as pawikan,” Lim said in an interview on Tuesday.
CEBU, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested five workers in an eatery in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City for allegedly selling meat of pawikan or chelonia mydas ...
DIPOLOG, Philippines – More than a month after calling on the people to join in protecting pawikan (marine turtle) eggs nests on the city’s coastlines, Mayor Dexter Darel Uy led Dipolognons in ...
READ: Apo Reef Natural Park bags int’l marine conservation ... and also monitored the emergence, for example, of the pawikan,” she said. In September 2020, when the province of Occidental ...
CEBU CITY - The newly formed Task Force Pawikan has confirmed the illegal sale of pawikan or sea turtle meat during a covert operation at the province’s largest seafood market in Barangay Pasil here.
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—In the midst of a construction boom around their vulnerable nests, 100 baby “pawikan” (sea turtles) crawled back into their natural habitat after they hatched at a beach ...
Scuba divers on a recreational dive found an endangered green sea turtle (pawikan) with a nylon string around its neck in the waters of Busuanga, Palawan over the weekend. Omar Linsangan, a dive ...
MANILA, Philippines - The Province of Bataan is helping preserve Mother Earth as it celebrates the 13th edition of the award-winning Pawikan Festival in Morong from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1. Spearheading ...
Last year, our friends ran into some people on the shore of San Juan, La Union, excitedly picking up baby turtles (pawikan) with the intention of bringing them home. Unfortunately, these ...