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The forest monitor lizard can grow to more than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length, and weigh up to 15 kg (33 lb), or possibly more. [4] Its scaly body and legs are a blue-black mottled with pale yellow-green dots, while its tail is marked in alternating segments of black and green. [ 5 ]
Forest (arboreal) VU: Asian palm civet: Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Pallas, 1777: Wide range of forest, plantation, and urban environments LC: Malayan civet: Viverra tangalunga Gray, 1832: Forest and shrublands LC: Family Herpestidae: mongooses: Collared mongoose: Urva semitorquata Gray, 1832: Forest NT: Family Mustelidae: mustelids: Asian small ...
The forest is a natural system that can supply different products and services. Forests supply water, mitigate climate change, provide habitats for wildlife including many pollinators which are essential for sustainable food production, provide timber and fuelwood, serve as a source of non-wood forest products including food and medicine, and contribute to rural livelihoods.
When the Philippines gained independence in 1948, the nursery was turned over to the university by the U.S. government and the arboretum was established. The administration of the arboretum was officially transferred to the University of the Philippines Diliman from the Reforestation Administration of the Department of Agriculture in 1962. [2]
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A tree caliper is a tool to measure the diameter of a tree. When used in forestry, the tree caliper tool measures the DBH or "diameter at breast height" of a tree that is growing in a landscape of any kind. The measurement is generally made at 4.5' or 1.4m above the soil.
As a result of this deforestation, the Philippines had one of the highest forest losses in the Asia-Pacific region at the turn of the century. [12] The large extent of forest loss in the country can be illustrated by the change from the country being a “major exporter of tropical logs in the late 1950s until 60s to now being a major importer ...
Illegal logging compounds the threat to the Panay monitor by diminishing its forest habitat and disrupting the ecological balance. The survival of the species is intricately linked to the preservation of the evergreen lowland forest, making illegal logging a significant concern.