To collect greater amount of money for the careful preservation and protection of sea turtles, the festival began with the Alay Lakad or Walk for a Cause in Balanga City in the early Saturday morning of November 18. Karakol or street dancing taken part by students in costumes having striking colors came after immediately at the place of entry of the place of shelter or protection of sea turtle from danger in the seashore village of Nagbalayong.

More than 40 thousand hatchlings had previously been set free to the South China Sea since 1999, when this pawikan conservation project began with former sea turtle hunters becoming volunteers. The United Nations and the Japanese Embassy were the first to fund this project but more recently, the provincial government of Bataan caused to remain this project and carried on yearly festivals to draw more guests to Nagbalayong.

Wherever the set free sea turtles go, even they reach as far as Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico and other countries, they will come back to this beach where they were produced young by incubation, to produce and deposit their eggs.

Although some countries have taken measures, sea turtles continue to be killed deliberately, eggs are taken as food and sea turtles are drowned accidentally in fishing equipment. As a result, the numbers of sea turtles have been falling for some time and are continuing to drop. They are threatened with extinction. We must take action. If not now, when?