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The marine station was named after Br. Alfred Shields FSC, the founder of DLSU's Biology Department. The land where the station is now located was donated by the Limjoco Family. The Marine Station is in the Municipality of Lian in Batangas, a province in the Southern part of Luzon. The Marine Station is near Talim Bay.
However, UNESCO participation of the Philippines was extremely limited due to the brutal Marcos dictatorship. [2] The Palawan Biosphere Reserve was inscribed in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves in 1990. The Philippines ratified the UNESCO Convention on September 19, 1985, effectively becoming a member of the organization on the ...
The Luzon montane rain forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The ecoregion is located on several volcanic and non-volcanic mountains of the island. Luzon is the largest and northernmost major island of the Philippines, located in the western Pacific Ocean. [2] Satellite view of the ...
A 2017 assessment found that 9,994 km 2, or 11%, of the island is in protected areas. [1] Protected areas in the ecoregion include: [13] Aurora Memorial National Park (56.8 km 2) Bawa River Watershed Forest Reserve (89.6 km 2) Bulusan Volcano Natural Park (36.7 km 2) Catanduanes Watershed Forest Reserve (260.1 km 2) Marinduque Wildlife ...
The 1.3-kilometer long bamboo bridge of the Bakhawan Eco-Park. The Bakhawan Eco-Park is a 220 hectares (540 acres) mangrove forest located in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines.The mangrove reforestation project started in 1990 when the local government and several non-government organizations transformed the muddy shoreline of Barangay New Buswang into a mangrove reforestation site to prevent flood ...
The tamaraw was originally found all over Mindoro, from sea level up to the mountains (2000 m above sea level), but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains and is now a critically endangered species. [1] Tamaraw (Inside Philippine National Museum of Natural History)
The Mount Hamiguitan range, with an area of 6,834 hectares (68.34 km 2), was declared a national park and a wildlife sanctuary in 2003. [7] In 2014, the park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, becoming the first in Mindanao and the sixth in the Philippines. [6] Mount Hamiguitan is part of the Eastern Mindanao Biodiversity Corridor. [8]
During 1987, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources was formally established. Under this department, the Forest Management Bureau was the sector that focuses on preserving the forest and the harvesting of its resources. [90] The Philippines have an actual forest cover at 6.5 million hectares (ha) or 24% of the total land area.