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| Other Areas With Rich Biodiversity |
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Angat Watershed |
| Angat in Bulacan | |
| - Angat Watershed and Forest Range (6,600 ha) was proclaimed a Watershed Forest Reserve by Proclamation No. 391 on 30 April 1968. Most of the remaining closed-canopy forests in Region III are found in Bulacan Province, principally in the Angat Dam Watershed which lies about 35 km to the north of Metro Manila. The watershed supports lowland dipterocarp and stands on moderate to very rough terrain between elevations of 490 to 920 m. The forests here are of relatively low stature, and grow on what appear to be poor soils with no humus layer. The areas surrounding the forest are covered in sparse scrub and grassland. The forests around Angat Dam are a popular destination for bird-watchers, and there are recent records of many of the threatened and restricted-range birds of the Luzon Endemic Bird Area. Mammals recorded in the area include two globally near-threatened species, Crab-Eating Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) and Philippine Warty Pig (Sus philippensis), and the Philippine Brown Deer (Cervus mariannus). | |
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Buguey Wetlands |
| Buguey Municipality in Cagayan | |
| - Buguey Wetlands are on the north coast of Luzon, east of the mouth of the Cagayan River, and cover 80% of Buguey Municipality. They are a complex of coastal lagoons, freshwater marshes, brackish and saline marshes, mangrove swamps and intertidal mudflats. Buguey Wetlands are an important staging and wintering area for migratory waterfowl, notably ducks and shorebirds. Thousands of ducks have been recorded, mostly Tree-ducks (Dendrocygna sp) and the threatened Philippine Duck. Up to 3,000 other waterfowl have been observed, and more than 1,000 shorebirds are regularly recorded there. | |
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Candaba Swamp |
| Pampanga | |
| - Candaba Swamp is near the towns of Candaba, San Miguel and San Ildefonso, 50 km north-north-west of Metro Manila, in Pampanga and Bulacan Provinces, central Luzon. It is a complex of freshwater ponds, swamps and marshes with surrounding areas of seasonally flooded grassland, arable land and palm savanna on a vast alluvial flood plain. The main area for waterfowl is an impoundment of about 300 hectars, with a mixture of open shallow water, small islands, and rafts of floating vegetation, adjacent to the Pampanga River about 9 kilometers north of Baliuag. However, this area is now drained earlier in the year than in the past, and it no longer attracts many waterfowl. The isolated Mt Arayat, which rises to 1,023 m and has disturbed lowland forest on its slopes, is adjacent to Candaba Marsh. The swamp was a traditional waterfowl hunting area in the past, and some hunting of ducks and rails, although now illegal, still occurs. Candaba Swamp was formerly an extremely important staging and wintering area for ducks, especially during the last quarter of the year. According to some records, the swamp regularly supported between 5,000 and 10,000 birds. In 1982, about 100,000 ducks were observed in a single day. No other site in the Philippines has been known to support such large concentrations of these birds but the number of wintering wildfowl has recently declined dramatically. Several threatened waterbirds occurred there in the past, although the populations of some of these have presumably declined or disappeared. However, it still supports the only known regular wintering population of Streaked Reed-warbler in the world. | |
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Mount Cagua |
| Cagayan | |
| - Mt Cagua lies at the northern end of the Sierra Madre mountains, in north-east Cagayan Province. It includes two large blocks of old growth forest shown on recent forest cover maps, and extends south to the Mt Tabuan area, near Twin Peaks, north of Mt Cetaceo. Mt Cagua rises to just over 1,000 m, so the forest is mainly lowland in type, with limited areas of montane forest around the highest peaks. The relatively extensive forests here are likely to support significant numbers of Philippine Eagle. The presence of the highly threatened Isabela Oriole has been recorded here also. | |
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Mount Cetaceo |
| Cagayan | |
| - Mt Cetaceo is one of the highest peaks in the northern Sierra Madre mountains in north-east Luzon. It extends from near the Twin Peaks area southwards through eastern Cagayan Province to the border with Isabela Province. A large block of forest is shown there on recent forest cover maps. The area includes some areas of lowland forest but these have been reported to be degraded. However, the extensive montane and mossy forests have been very little affected by human activities. Mossy forest was found above about 1,400 meters. The trees were densely covered by mosses and contained an abundance of epiphytes such as orchids, pitcherplants (Nepenthes sp.) and ferns. The extensive forests are likely to support significant numbers of Philippine Eagle. | |
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Mount Dingalan |
| Aurora Province | |
| - Good quality forest was found both along the coast and in the mountains during recent surveys (by a team from the Institute of Biology-University of the Philippines Diliman, Conservation International and the National Sciences Research Institute), including lowland dipterocarp and limestone forests along the coast and on the lower mountain slopes. Mt Dingalan (1,895 m) and several other peaks have montane forests on their higher slopes. There are recent records of Philippine Eagle at Dingalan, but very little information is available. | |
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Pagbilao Bay |
| Pagbilao, Quezon | |
| - It includes a 700 ha. patch of mangroves in the delta of the Palsabangon River and its tributaries in Pagbilao Bay, which is protected from strong wave action by the islands of Pagbilao Grande, Dampalita and Patayan. It is an important staging and wintering area for migratory herons, egrets and shorebirds. Nine species of Ardeidae have been recorded, and up to 500 shorebirds of 16 species have been counted. The threatened Chinese Egret and Philippine Duck may both occur in significant numbers, and the records of the threatened Philippine Kingfisher in the mangrove forests there are also of interest. | |
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Tayabas Bay |
| Tayabas, Quezon | |
| - It is similar to Pagbilao Bay's importance being a mangrove forest which serves as a sanctuary for migratory birds. | |
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Eden Nature Park |
| Davao City | |
| http://www.edennaturepark.com | |
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