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The Philippines has among the highest rates of species discovery in the world with 16 new species of mammal discovered in the last ten years. Because of this, the degree of endemism in the Philippines has risen and will likely continue to rise. [3] Some of the smallest and largest animals and plants are found in the Philippines.
An adult female Philippine deer on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines In Manila, Philippines. The Philippine brown deer is relatively smaller than its relative, the sambar deer. Its head-and-body length and shoulder height measures 100 to 151 cm (39 to 59 in), and 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in), respectively.
However, despite occurring in numerous protected areas, actual protection from illegal logging, hunting and capture for the wildlife trade is lax. [ 10 ] In 2014 in Adams, Ilocos Norte , the Vice-Mayor's son was photographed carrying a deceased juvenile that he had just shot. [ 11 ]
It is one of three endemic deer species found in the Philippines, although it was not recognized as a separate species until 1983. An estimated 2,500 mature individuals survived worldwide in 1996, according to the IUCN; today’s surviving wild number is uncertain. The diet of the deer, which consists of a variety of different types of grasses ...
Image Common name Scientific name authority Preferred habitat IUCN status Range Family Suidae: pigs: Palawan bearded pig: Sus ahoenobarbus Huet, 1888: Forest NT: Bornean bearded pig
The species has experienced steep population decreases since the 1970s mainly due to hunting and habitat loss. The ducks have been heavily hunted since the 1960s with thousands being hunted a year through the late 1980s. [5] Habitat loss is mainly due to wetland drainage, aquaculture, mangrove destruction and fishpond creation. [3]
Hunting has also caused a great decline in the number of individuals left. The meat is considered a delicacy on the islands, and the skin is also used to make leather. Although no true estimates of the Philippine mouse-deer population have been made to date, they are assumed to be declining in numbers.
The Philippines has four endemic types of species of wild pigs (Filipino: baboy ramo). This makes the Philippines unique in having arguably the largest number of endemic wild pigs (Genus Sus ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Two separate populations of unstudied wild pig species have been reported on the islands of Tawi-Tawi (near Sabah , Malaysia ), [ 3 ] and ...