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This is a list of threatened plant and animal species in the Philippines as classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It includes vulnerable (VU), endangered (EN), critically endangered (CR), and recently extinct (EX) species. It excludes near threatened (NT), data deficient (DD), and prehistoric species. [1]
The Philippines is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries and is a global biodiversity hotspot. In 2013, 700 of the country's 52,177 species were listed as threatened. [2] The Philippines has among the highest rates of species discovery in the world with 16 new species of mammal discovered in the last ten years.
Alocasia sanderiana, commonly known as the kris plant or Sander's alocasia, is a plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Northern Mindanao in the Philippines, but is commonly grown as an ornamental plant worldwide. It is classified as critically endangered in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The National List of Threatened Terrestrial Fauna of the Philippines, also known as the Red List, is a list of endangered species endemic to the Philippines and is maintained by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) through its Biodiversity Management Bureau and the Philippine Red List Committee.
Trees and plants always have evolved from previous populations somewhere else, but they ended up getting isolated from other populations, and then drifted to become distinct species in a group. They are not completely unique and will most often still breed with other species in the genus.
Pages in category "Endemic flora of the Philippines" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 222 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Additionally 1674 plant species (7.6% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN. [ 2 ]
Toona calantas is a species of tree in the mahogany family.It is found in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand.It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] It is commonly known as kalantas (also spelled calantas), lanipga (in Visayan and Bikol), [2] ample (in Batanes), [2] bantinan (in Cagayan and Mountain Province), [2] danupra (in Zambales and Ilocos Norte), [2] Philippine cedar, or Philippine ...