Recent monitoring works in the thick forests surrounding Mt. Apo have turned up encouraging signs of a flourishing ecosystem, with sightings of both the mythical and the more familiar.
This composite photo shows the Philippine trogon and an endemic species of squirrel recently spotted in the forests surrounding Mt. Apo.MANILA, Philippines — Recent monitoring works in the thick forests surrounding Mt. Apo have turned up encouraging signs of a flourishing ecosystem, with sightings of both the mythical and the more familiar.
"The Obo Monuvu people, custodians of Mt. Apo's ancestral lands, have long revered the bird species as a symbol of their connection to the environment," the DENR Region XII said in a press release. The DENR also documented its second sighting of the Philippine Pygmy Squirrel . The DENR said that these recent sightings of endemic species are positive indicators of the overall health of Mt. Apo's surrounding forests, which have recently been closed off to the public in response to the ongoing El Niño phenomenon.
Forests in the Philippines have been shrinking at an alarming rate despite the government's log bans due to overexploitation, deforestation, and forest/land conversion. by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism found that the country's forest cover had shrunk from 10.6 million hectares before Martial Law in 1972 to 6.4 million hectares after the 1986 People Power Revolution. Since then, the country's forest cover has stagnated at just under 7 million hectares on average.
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