The green turtles are widely found throughout the country, with high nesting aggregations 
  in Turtle Islands and the San Miguel Group of Islands, both in Tawi- Tawi. The hawksbill is 
  also widely distributed in the Philippines. The population of hawksbills is severely decimated 
  as a result of excessive exploitation of eggs and the high  international demand for tor-
  toiseshell. Lagonoy Gulf in the Bicol region has been identified 
  as a developmental habitat of hawksbill turtle. Although very 
  few, olive ridleys, loggerheads and leatherbacks are found in 
  the Philippines Leatherback turtles are occasionally caught by 
  local fishers in southern Luzon specially in Catanduanes, Daet 
  and Albay Gulf within the Bicol region. 

     The Philippine-Sabah Turtle Islands is considered as one of 
  the 16 major rookeries of marine turtles in the world and the only remaining major nesting 
  area of green turtles in the ASEAN region. The normal peak season for turtle nestings in 
  the Turtle Islands is from May to September. However, there are some years were the peak 
  season starts at April and ends at October (Table 1).The turtle Islands is visited yearly by 
  more than 5,000 nesting turtles which was estimated from the PCP data of 1984-1998.
  (Table 2.)