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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.
Activists in the Philippines have organized activities to call for government action to address climate change. They have protested government policies that have allowed reclamation projects and mining activities and the killing of activists. [63] [64] Activists have called for higher emission cuts in the Philippines and in developed countries ...
A Philippine eagle at Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City. There are 714 species of birds in the Philippines, of which 243 are endemic, three have been introduced by humans, and 52 are rare or accidental occurrences. The Philippines has the third-highest number of endemic birds, behind the much larger countries of Australia and Indonesia.
The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is an intergovernmental regional centre of excellence that facilitates co-operation and co-ordination among the members of ASEAN, and with relevant national governments, regional and international organisations on the Conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) is a council of the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines government. The council aims to help national research and development efforts in agriculture, forestry, and natural resources of the Philippines. It does so by ...
[39] The country also participated in the "Doha Climate Change Conference". [40] In 2013, the Philippines under President Noynoy Aquino won its second mandate to the powerful World Heritage Committee, serving until 2017. [8] In January of the same year, an American vessel ran aground in the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.
It looks at how biodiversity, water, food and health are all connected, and it's the most ambitious scientific assessment of these links ever done. It also looks at more than five dozen different ways to deal with the problem, to make the most of the benefits across the five 'nexus elements': biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change.
The UN Decade on Biodiversity served to support and promote the implementation of the objectives of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, which were adopted in 2010, at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the CBD, held in Aichi, Japan. Throughout the UN Decade on Biodiversity, governments were encouraged to ...