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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.
Philippine naked-backed fruit bat: Dobsonia chapmani Rabor, 1952: Caves and forest CR: Rickart's dyak fruit bat: Dyacopterus rickarti Helgen et al, 2007: Caves and forest EN: Dayak fruit bat: Dyacopterus spadiceus Thomas, 1890: Caves and forest NT: Greater nectar bat: Eonycteris major K. Andersen, 1910: Caves and forest NT Unknown: Philippine ...
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 range is one of the few remaining rainforests in the Philippines, hosting one of the most important diverse species of rare and endemic wildlife such as the Philippine eagle. Five of its peaks have very high elevations: Mount Dulang-dulang , the highest at 2,941 m (9,649 ft); Mount Kitanglad at 2,899 meters; Mount Maagnaw at 2,742 meters ...
By 1953, fewer than 250 animals were estimated to be alive. [17] These population estimates continually grew smaller until the International Union for Conservation of Nature publication of their 1969 Red Data Book, where the tamaraw population was noted to be an alarmingly low 100 head. [18] This head count rose to 120 animals in 1975. [19]
In 2023, the vast majority of Philippine carabaos (99.3%) are raised for this purpose by smallholder farmers. [3] [18] Carabaos raised as draft animals are typically docile and can be trained with simple commands. They are treated as a family pet and are regularly taken to bodies of water to bathe when not working.
The Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), also known as the Visayan deer, the Philippine spotted deer [3] or Prince Alfred's deer, is a small, endangered, primarily nocturnal species of deer found in the rainforests of the Visayan Islands of Panay and Negros. It once was found across other islands, such as Cebu, Guimaras, Leyte, Masbate, and Samar.
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.