PAWIKAN QUIZ BEE

Pawikan Conservation Center is located at __________.

• Poblacion, Morong, Bataan
• Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan
• Binatritan, Morong Bataan
• Saban, Morong, Bataan

Pawikan Conservation Center is being a home devoted to raise awareness about the preservation and propagation of endangered marine turtles aptly called __________.

• Olive Ridley
• Kemp's Ridley
• Hawksbill
• Leatherback

What months are the nesting season of the turtle eggs that the Pawikan Center tries to secure?

• between January and March
• between August and October
• June to November
• between September and January

Every __________, Pawikan Festival is held here to give appreciation and spread awareness, to let people know that we need to take care of these creatures

• October
• November
• December
• January

What is AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES AND THEIR HABITATS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THUS This Act shall be known as the “Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act.”

• REPUBLIC ACT NO.7856
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9147
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9003
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9155

THE BASIS OF RA NO. 9147 WHICH IS AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL INTEGRATED PROTECTED AREAS SYSTEM, DEFINING ITS SCOPE AND COVERAGE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. THUS, This Act shall be known and referred to as the “National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992”.

• REPUBLIC ACT NO.7856
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9147
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9003
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9155

Bataan community organization in Morong named Bantay Pawikan, Inc. started the first community-based conservation program of Marine Turtles with the help of UNDP-GEF-SGP-PRRM and the Provincial Government in _________

• 1992
• 2002
• 1999
• 2009

The entire Bagac and Morong coasts are known as nesting grounds of three (3) out of five (5) sea turtle species in the country. WHICH IS NOT ONE OF THOSE SPECIES?

• Olive Ridley
• Kemp's Ridley
• Hawksbill
• Leatherback

For the past years, the Bantay Pawikan, Inc. and the Morong local government unit have been conducting the ___________ during the last week of November

• tubig festival
• ibong dayo festival
• pagong festival
• pawikan festival

The mission of the community-based program is to secure the ______ laid during the nesting season between September and January.

• eggs
• turtles
• animals
• ecosystem