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Mount Calavite is located in an 18,016.19-hectare (44,519.0-acre) protected area known as Mount Calavite Wildlife Sanctuary.It was first declared as a game refuge and bird sanctuary in 1920 to protect the natural habitat of the endemic Mindoro tamaraw.
The Mindoro rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID:IM0130) covers the island of Mindoro, which lies between the island of Luzon and the Palawan Archipelago in the Philippines.The island has been subject to heavy commercial logging, with the only original forests remaining on the high ridge of the central mountain range.
Mindoro is the seventh largest and eighth-most populous island in the Philippines. With a total land area of 10,571 km 2 ( 4,082 sq.mi ), it has a population of 1,408,454, as of the 2020 census. It is located off the southwestern coast of Luzon and northeast of Palawan. Mindoro is divided into two provinces: Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro.
This cuckooshrike usually lives in small groups or in mixed-species foraging flocks with other cuckooshrikes such as the Black-bibbed cicadabird.. As a newly split species, not much is known about this species itself but based on information about the Bar-bellied cuckooshrike it is also pressumed to mainly eats insects, including caterpillars, mantises, and dragonflies, and figs.
Leticia "Letty" E. Afuang is a Filipina biologist and wildlife conservationist currently working as a professor under the Animal Biology Division of the Institute of Biological Sciences (IBS) at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), [1] located in the Philippine province of Laguna. [2]
The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis), also known as the Mindoro crocodile, the Philippine freshwater crocodile, the bukarot [4] in Ilocano, and more generally as a buwaya in most Filipino lowland cultures, [4] is one of two species of crocodiles found in the Philippines; the other is the larger saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
Poverty incidence of Paluan 10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 58.70 2009 38.03 2012 29.58 2015 40.60 2018 22.64 2021 20.93 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority History Paluan became a municipality on January 5, 1901, but its history dates back to the early 17th century when the village was known as the Religious District of Calavite. Demographics Population census of Paluan Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1903 ...
Poverty incidence of Oriental Mindoro 10 20 30 40 50 2006 43.67 2009 36.08 2012 29.33 2015 22.35 2018 10.81 2021 12.80 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Oriental Mindoro's rich and arable land is suitable for agriculture. It produces large quantities of rice, corn, coconut, vegetables and fruits like calamansi, banana, rambutan, marang or uloy, lanzones and durian. For that, Oriental ...