A call to protect La Union’s seas and ‘pawikan’

Environment advocates in group photo, from left, Maye Padilla of World Wide Fund for Nature, Tina Antonio of La Union Soul Movement, Anna Meloto-Wilk of Human Nature, and Anna Oposa of Save Philippine Seas

“Mother turtles would lay their eggs where they are born; and where the turtles are eventually released is the place where the mother turtles would come back to lay their eggs again approximately 20 years,” said Toby Tamayo, this time of the pawikan conservation and protection group.