Indira Lacerna-Widmann, chief executive and operations officer of the Katala Foundation, Inc. (KFI) under which the Palawan Freshwater Turtle Conservation Project (PFTCP) is an ongoing conservation program, said they named their new Palawan Forest Turtle (Siebenrockiella leytensis) Yanyan Peter Covidi or officially "YaPeDi" to represent "hope in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
