PALAWAN MANGROVE FOREST

PALAWAN FLORA AND FAUNA

Palawan is a beautiful province. It boasts an array of wildlife,
unique species of plants and animals, and many enchanting and
wonderful natural scenic spots, rare wildlife and plant life,
narrow coastal plains and pristine white beaches characterizes
Palawan. Such beauty may be attributed to its unique
geographical.
Palawan is in itself a chain of Island and islets lying along the
northwest margin of the Sulu and china seas. It appears like a
long land bridged extending 75 kilometres from north to Borneo
on the soul and Mindoro on the north. Whatever Palawan’s
Shape is it is truly a paradise of Nature which continuously lures
tourists with it natural wonders and beauty among these wonders
are its Flora and Fauna.
The Island of a variety of tree and plant species forest covers
45% of the province total land area. This is more than any other
major Island in the Philippines.
The Philippines has a thousand species of wildlife and 232 of
these species inhabit in Palawan. Many of which are rare and
endangered thus, the province is referred to as the ‘’wide Island
zoo’’ of the pacific and Haven of the Rare Philippine Wildlife’’.
Palawan is also a home to several species of birds 206 species
are found in the forests and shore of the Island and its islets.
Such bounty and beauty of nature is a genuine source of pride of
its people.
THE THREATS AND PROGRAM
 The major threats to mangrove forest include population
explosion, conversion to aquaculture ponds, clear-felling
for timber, charcoal and wood chip production for
industrial and urban development.
 Mangroves provide essential habitat for thousands of
species. They also stabilize shorelines, preventing erosion
and protecting the land and the people who live there from
waves and storm.
 “Pista ng Kalikasan Program”
THE LAW IMPLEMENTED TO PROTECT THE PALAWAN
MANGROVE FOREST
 RA 9275 (2004) Philippine clean water Act of 2004
 RA 9147 (2001) The Wildlife Resources conservation and
Protection Act.
 RA 8550 (1998) The Philippine Fisheries Code
 RA 8435 (1997) The Agriculture and Fisheries
Modernization Act
 RA 8371 (1997) The Indigenous People’s rights Act
(includes the indigenous people’s ownership and
management of their ancestral waters)
 RA 7586 (1992) The National Integrated Protected Areas

System Act