Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Pawikan (Sea Turtle) Sanctuary



Pawikan (Sea Turtle) Sanctuary is located at Brgy. Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan. We went here last February 2011 because of the fiesta and it is also the hometown of my mother. This sanctuary is a community-based sea turtle conservation program that aims to protect and to propagate the endangered sea turtles. The persons behind this program are former hunters and poachers of sea turtles.

In this sanctuary, they secure the eggs laid by the sea turtles in the shores at night and then put them to a hatchery until they are hatched. Then they will take care of the baby turtles until they are ready to be released back in their original habitat. In the hatchery, the eggs are separated depending on how old they are.


Sea Turtle Egg Hatchery
One of the hatcheries



The caretaker of the sanctuary said that they also take care of sea turtles with disabilities like the turtles shown below:



Blind Sea Turtle
Hunchback Sea Turtle (unable to balance himself/herself)

As we all know, sea turtles are already classified as endangered species. Some of them are declared as "critically" endangered like the Olive Ridley sea turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle, Loggerhead sea turtle, Leatherback sea turtle and the Green turtle.


critically endangered species of sea turtles

Through the efforts of the Sea Turtle Sanctuary in Bataan, the day will come that these sea turtles will not be endangered anymore. We can also do our share especially for those communities that resides in the beach by not hunting these sea creatures and not eating their flesh and their eggs.

Here are some pictures of baby sea turtles that will be released back to their original habitat. 





We should not waste the efforts given by the sanctuary so that in the near future, our childrens and grandchildrens can still see  these creatures in person and not only in books.

16 comments:

  1. it must be awesome to see those baby pawikans.

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    1. yes it is really awesome when you look at them in close. :)

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  2. ui parekoy kelan kayo nagpunta jan lapit lang kame jan!!!mariveles bataan ako eh!!^^ wednesday visit para sayo parekoy!!!

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  3. ui parekoy kelan kayo nagpunta jan lapit lang kame jan!!!mariveles bataan ako eh!!^^ wednesday visit para sayo parekoy!!!ako di ung isa parekoy

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    1. last february 2011 pa yan pre...hehe pero netong new year lang umuwi ulit ako dun..ehehe post ko mga pics sa mga susunod na araw :)

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  4. I'm glad that the community has learned to participate and help protect those sea turtles. Thank you for sharing this, this would help increase awareness about this creature. :)

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    1. thanks for appreciating their efforts and also my post :)

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  5. ayos sarap mag byahe.. thanks sa pagbisita.

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    1. uu pre gusto ko talaga magbyahe ng magbyahe..ang problema eh ala ako pera..ahahaa salamat din sa pagkomento :)

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  6. gusto ko makakita nyan ^^ dapat ganyan talga tayo sa mga hayop ^^

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  7. punta ka sa morong, bataan pre...sa may tabing-dagat lang location nyan :)

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  8. ah san tiga bataan ka din ba??? parekoy???monday visit sayo parekoy!!

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  9. cool sanctuary!!!

    a visit from Bicol. :)

    http://ohbite.blogspot.com/2012/01/be-real-barako-with-baklava.html

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  10. love the effort being put in saving the pawikan. m so happy this place exists. :)

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  11. Hello my friend.
    Still the rain this morning.
    I hope you have the sun.
    Teb.

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  12. Ayo selamatkan kehidupan penyu dari kepunahan..

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