Apayao Lowland Forest
Calanasan, Apayao
Apayao Lowland Forest Reserve is located near Calanasan in Apayao province. Seven Apayao towns are consolidating their forest land use plans to preserve the province's remaining virgin forests as a critical habitat of endangered flora and fauna. This would also ensure the protection of wildlife and help maintain a balanced ecology in Apayao, which is home to more than 112,600 people.
Apayao Lowland Forest Reserve News
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Bulut Vows For Intensified Forest Protection
Governor Elias C. Bulut, Jr. mandated an intensified environmental protection of Apayaos remaining forest dubbed as Last Forest Frontier in the North and tapped the Philippine Eagle Foundation to train locals on their significant role in conserving the biodiversity and in protecting the Philippine Eagle found in the province.
The Provincial Government of Apayao under the Environment and Natural Resources Division initiated training on biodiversity conservation of twenty (20) local green guards from four (4) barangays on August 23-25 at Brgy. Marag here.
Gov. Bulut challenged the particip ... -
Worlds Greatest Concentration Of Unique Mammal Species Is On Philippine Island
Where is the world's greatest concentration of unique species of mammals? A team of American and Filipino authors have concluded that it is Luzon Island, in the Philippines. Their 15-year project, summarized in a paper published in the scientific journal Frontiers of Biogeography, has shown that out of 56 species of non-flying mammal species that are now known to live on the island, 52 live nowhere else in the world. Of those 56 species, 28 were discovered during the course of the project. Nineteen of the species have been formally described in scientific journals, and nine are currently "in t ...
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Single Philippines Island Home To Greatest Collection Of Unique Mammal Species
A single island in the Philippines contains the world's greatest collection of unique mammal species, scientists have discovered. Of 56 non-flying mammals now known to live on Luzon island, 52 are found nowhere else on Earth.
Researchers only realised the importance of Luzon after identifying 28 new species there during a 15-year study.
They include four kinds of tiny tree mice with whiskers so long they almost reach their ankles. Five other mouse species look like shrews and feed chiefly on earthworms.
Nineteen of the new species have been formally described in scientific journals, a ... -
Rescued Philippine Eagle Released In Apayao
A rescued Philippine Eagle was released into the wild in the province of Apayao recently.
According to DENR Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Dr. Candido Tuscano, the female bird was rescued by a group of fishermen along the Tawit River in the municipality of Pudtol, Apayao on April 21 at around 10AM.
Based on the accounts of a fisherman Richard Tomas, they saw a large bird struggling to fly so they decided to rescue it. They turned over the bird to an employee of the Municipal Government of Pudtol identified as Teddy Zuniga, who informed DENR and the Philippine Eag ... -
Protecting the rare giants of Calanasan Lowland Forests
The town of Calanasan in Apayao Province, Luzon is home to rare tropical rainforest giants.
Its forest leviathans include very old Dipterocarp "lawaan" trees, whose trunks can be as wide as the total width of twenty people huddled together under one huge umbrella trying to avoid the rains. These trees can be as tall as a 10-story building.
Within limestone forests, the forest floor can be ornamented by clusters of orange-colored, cream-warted Rafflesias which are considered to be the rarest and largest single flower of any plant in the world. Among its forest thickets, Giant "Cloud Rats ... -
Apayao Where Ethnic Tradition Is Saving The Philippine Eagle
All eyes were on a branch of a tree in one of the largest forest reserves in the country.
On the outer rim of a nest almost completely camouflaged by leaves stood a bird with brown feathers, a smooth head that sometimes fanned out into a crown, and the fierce stare that could only belong to a Philippine eagle.
It was a 3-month-old male eaglet enjoying a drizzly morning perched on the first active Philippine eagle nest discovered on Luzon island.
Biologists of the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) first came upon it in April, after 4 years of trekking through dense mountain forests in ...