Cleanergy Park is an eight-hectare outdoor biodiversity learning center in Davao City that is paving the way or a new model of urbanbased habitat conservation and biodiversity management. In addition to being a turtle sanctuary, it is also a haven for the other 66 species of trees, birds and fish thriving in its mangrove forest, a fish sanctuary, seagrass beds and coral reefs.
Visitors will be treated to an outdoor biodiversity learning experience via its mixed natural and built structures like the turtle viewdeck, mangrove boardwalk, learning center and observatory deck, botanical garden and nursery that will propagate the area’s 29 native tree species. WeatherPhilippines has also installed an automated weather station (AWS) to add to the park’s multi-biodiversity research function.
HATCHING HOPE. A new batch of 109 hawksbill turtle hatchlings were released last December 2. These baby turtles are expected to go back to the same spot where they were hatched so they can lay eggs. That’s why it is important to preserve their natural habitat. Doing so increases the chances of reversing the decline of their species. Click on the photo below to watch the video clip of the hatchlings swimming to the sea for the first time.
