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Species are assessed solely according to their population in the Philippines and hence may not be in line with other conversation lists such as the IUCN Red List which list the crab-eating macaque (including subspecies the Philippine long-tailed macaque) as vulnerable but is not included in the 2019 release of the Philippines' national Red List ...
The wildlife of the Philippines includes a significant number of endemic plant and animal species. The country's surrounding waters reportedly [1] have the highest level of marine biodiversity in the world. The Philippines is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries and is a global biodiversity hotspot.
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.
Dioscoro Siarot Rabor (() May 18, 1911– March 25, 1996), also known as Joe Rabor, was a Filipino ornithologist, zoologist, and conservationist.Known as the "Father of Philippine Wildlife Conservation", he led more than 50 wildlife expeditions in the Philippines, authored 87 scientific papers and articles, and described 69 new bird taxa and numerous mammal species.
The Negros fruit dove (Ptilinopus arcanus) is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae.It is endemic to the island of Negros in the Philippines.This fruit dove is known from a single female specimen collected from the slopes of Mount Kanlaon in the northern part of the island.
The families of gingers, begonias, gesneriads, orchids, pandans, palms, and dipterocarps are particularly high in endemic species. For example, two-thirds of the 150 species of palms present in the country are found nowhere else in the world. There are over 137 genera and about 998 species of orchids so far recorded in the Philippines as of ...
The Philippine leaf warbler (Phylloscopus olivaceus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It is endemic to the Philippines on the islands Bohol , Samar , Leyte , Negros , Mindanao , Basilan and the Sulu Archipelago .
Conservation actions proposed are to survey remaining lowland forest tracts on Samar, Leyte and in poorly known areas of Mindanao, to establish its current distribution and population status. This species was reported by multiple observers in Samar in 2023 and 2024 and it is recommended that these records be verified.