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The wildlife of the Philippines includes a significant number of endemic plant and animal species. The country's surrounding waters reportedly [1] have the highest level of marine biodiversity in the world. The Philippines is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries and is a global biodiversity hotspot. In 2013, 700 of the country's 52,177 ...
Image Common name Scientific name (authority) Preferred habitat / notes IUCN status Range Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines: Philippine porcupine: Hystrix pumila Günther, 1879: Forest & forest/grassland mosaic VU: Family Sciuridae: squirrels: Philippine pygmy squirrel: Exilisciurus concinnus Thomas, 1888: Lowland & montane forest LC
Binomial name. Bubalus mindorensis. ( Heude, 1888) Range map in green. The tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo ( Bubalus mindorensis) is a small buffalo belonging to the family Bovidae. [ 3] It is endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, and is the only endemic Philippine bovine. It is believed, however, to have once also thrived on ...
The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago. [1] Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon [2] [3] at least by 134,000 years ago. [4] The earliest known anatomically modern human was from Tabon Caves in Palawan dating about 47,000 ...
The first Philippine satellite launched to space was Agila-2 which was placed to orbit in 1997. The Philippine Space Agency is the lead government organization of the Philippine space program since 2019 but all active satellites are built and operated by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its child agencies.
NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA. 1998. The International Space Station (ISS) has long been used as a central satellite platform for other sensors, including Earth observation sensors. For example: LIS, SAGE III, TSIS-I, ECOSTRESS, GEDI, OCO-3, Diwata-1, and HICO . Jason-3.
Apo Reef is a coral reef system in the Philippines situated in the western waters of Occidental Mindoro province in the Mindoro Strait. Encompassing 34 square kilometres (13 sq mi), it is considered the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system, and is the largest in the country. [1] The reef and its surrounding waters are protected ...
Tubbataha Reef. / 8.95333°N 119.86750°E / 8.95333; 119.86750. The Tubbataha Natural Park, also known as the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park ( Filipino: Bahurang Tubbataha ), is a protected area of the Philippines located in the middle of the Sulu Sea. The marine and bird sanctuary consists of two huge atolls (named the North Atoll and ...