ZAMBOANGA CITY: More than 200 baby turtles were released last Wednesday morning to the sea during a ceremonial program presided over by Tawi-Tawi’s Taganak Islands town Mayor Mohammad Taisal Jamalal. The mayor said the eggs of the newly hatched turtles were earlier buried in the shorelines of Turtle Islands by their mothers that later left them until they cracked out of their shells. “Now, for the past several years, we have counted over thousands of green sea turtles nurtured and safely released back to the sea,” Jamalul noted. He said the turtles’ local nesting site has been officially recognized by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and considered as wildlife sanctuary in Mindanao.
